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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. In what year did Orleanna and her family leave the United States?

2. What do the girls find after the rain?

3. What lesson does Nathan Price give Leah about why God gave people seeds?

4. Adah doesn't do which of the following?

5. Who doesn't always take her quinine pills?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens in Book 2 that makes the Price family and the villagers think that Adah has died? What really happened?

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

5. Who does Ruth May think the Congolese are in Book 1? Who are the white people that Ruth May says are now in the Congo?

6. Why do the people of the village stare at the Prices? Which family member did people used to stare at? Why do you think this person seems more normal to the villagers than the other family members?

7. Why do the Underdowns come to Kilanga? How does Nathan respond?

8. Why do you think Orleanna stays with Nathan despite the ways that he treats her?

9. What does the family bring with them to the Congo? What troubles did they have in getting these things to the Congo? How did they solve the problem?

10. Why do you think that Adah chooses not to speak?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the importance of names in the novel? How are names important for people in the novel? What is the importance of naming something wrong in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Children are often noted as being more observant. Do you think Ruth May was more observant than other members of her family? What things did she see that her other family members did not? Do you think that her curious nature got her into trouble?

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