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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. What illness does the family try to avoid?
2. How much money does the family receive as a stipend each month?
3. What happens after Nathan Price gives a blessing at the feast?
4. For what does Mother begin to pray?
5. Rachel notices that all the women wear what item of clothing?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Orleanna go to the Congo? With whom does she go?
2. Why does Mama Tataba quit working for the Prices? Do you agree with her decision?
3. How does Orleanna survive in the Congo amid all the hard work?
4. Book 2 opens with a startling revelation about the Price family. What does the Orleanna say is going to happen to the family? What do you think will happen in the rest of the book to make this come true?
5. How did Orleanna meet Nathan? How did their relationship change?
6. Who is Nelson? Why does Anatole send Nelson to live with the Prices?
7. What does Book 2 tell us about Nathan and his relationship to the family?
8. What is the Price house like? How is it different than other houses in the village?
9. What are some of the superstitions that the villagers have? Why do you think they have these superstitions?
10. In Book 1, Rachel feels like the family is "in for it" in the Congo. Why do you think that Rachel feels this way?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Nathan Price is the only character from the Price family that does not narrate in the novel. Why do you think he does not have a voice in the novel? What effect does this have on the reader's perception of him and the events of the novel? What does Nathan represent or symbolize in the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Kingsolver brings the United States into the novel in several different ways. What role did the United States play in the Congo at a national and village level? What does Kingsolver seem to think about the United States' role in the events in the Congo? Do you think the United States should have been involved in the Congo?
Essay Topic 3
Which character in the novel do you think that you are most like? Why do you think you are like this character? Which character do you think you are least like? Why?
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