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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Adah has which condition?

2. How far did Orleanna and the family have to carry water?

3. Who shows up at the Price's in January?

4. What does Nathan Price encounter in the garden?

5. Orleanna was a child of what era?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Anatole? Why is Nathan angry with Anatole?

2. What happens when the family first arrives in the Congo?

3. What happens to Ruth May's sock monkey? How does she feel about this?

4. What does Nathan Price's opinion of women seem to be based on the events and narration in Book 1?

5. Why does Mama Tataba quit working for the Prices? Do you agree with her decision?

6. What was life like in the Congo for Orleanna?

7. What does Book 2 tell us about Nathan and his relationship to the family?

8. How did Orleanna meet Nathan? How did their relationship change?

9. What is the Verse? Why do the girls get the Verse? Who is really to blame?

10. Who is Nelson? Why does Anatole send Nelson to live with the Prices?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the character of Anatole and what he represents. What is Anatole's background and what does he become? What does he symbolize at a national level? Why is someone like Anatole often viewed as dangerous?

Essay Topic 2

Trace the development and changes in Leah's relationship with her father throughout the novel. How does Leah feel about her father in the beginning of the novel? When do her feelings toward him start to change? How does she end up feeling about and relating to Nathan?

Essay Topic 3

What are the similarities between the Prices' marriage and the relationship of the Belgians to the Congo? What do you think Nathan and the Belgians should have done differently?

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