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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 Book 6, where do Leah and Anatole live?

2. What does Tata Ndu want from the Prices?

3. What does Orleanna do when she reaches the edge of the village?

4. What is the safe place that Ruth May thinks of in case she dies?

5. Why can't the mother and daughters go to Kilanga?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens during the big hunt?

2. Why do you think Adah says that the loss of life isn't always unwelcome?

3. What happens to Rachel in her life? Do you think she is happy?

4. Why does Rachel think that she can't go back to the United States now?

5. What happens to Ruth May at the end of Book 4? What happens after this event?

6. Why do you think that Leah now feels uncomfortable in the United States?

7. What does Leah tell Anatole? What does he tell her in return? Why do you think he responds this way?

8. What does Nelson give to Ruth May? What does he tell her to do with it?

9. What do you think Kingsolver means when she has the woman in the market say that there has never been a village past Bulungu and that she doesn't know of anywhere called Kilanga?

10. What does Tata Ndu want from the family in Book 3? How does the family respond?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Prices change during their time in the Congo. Discuss how the changes affect the family, including:

1) Which character do you think changed the most? How did this character change?

2) Which character changed the least? In what ways does the character remain the same?

3) How does the family itself change from the beginning of the book to the end?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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