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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. When does Nathan say that family will leave?

2. Orleanna's journey in Africa come to what kind of end?

3. Who is put in charge of the chickens?

4. Who becomes Leah's first friend in the Congo

5. Where did Orleanna think she was when she woke sometimes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What responsibilities to the girls have when mother is in bed? Does Nathan make the situation easier or harder on them?

2. What happens to Ruth May in Book 2 as she is spying on the Jimmy Crow boys? What does she discover in the events that take place?

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

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

5. Orleanna says that her journey in Africa came to a bad end in Book 1. What do you think will happen that will make Orleanna's journey end badly?

6. 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?

7. Why does Orleanna go to the Congo? With whom does she go?

8. Where do Nathan and Leah go in Book 2? What do they see?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe what happens to each of the three remaining daughters after Ruth May's death. Include in your answer the following:

1) How did the Congo change each person?

2) How did Ruth May's death affect each person?

3) Which of the three girls emerges from the Congo the strongest?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Nathan Price and Brother Fowles. How are their attitudes and approaches toward the village of Kilanga and the Congo different? What do you think each represents or symbolizes within the book?

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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