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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. Who does Rachel think Brother Fowles looks like?
2. What does Adah study in her work?
3. What does Tata Ndu want from the Prices?
4. Which family member refuses to take any responsibility for what happened to Ruth May?
5. What is Leah learning?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do you think Adah says that the loss of life isn't always unwelcome?
2. What happened to Patrice Lumumba?
3. Orleanna characterizes Nathan as someone who stands still. What does she mean by this?
4. Why do you think Adah begins to speak after Ruth May's death when she chose to remain silent before it?
5. Why do you think Ruth May chooses a green mamba as the place that she wanted to be when she died?
6. 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?
7. What happens to Rachel in her life? Do you think she is happy?
8. What does Orleanna do after Ruth May's death? Why does she do this?
9. Why do you think that Leah now feels uncomfortable in the United States?
10. How has the Congo changed the Prices?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
In The Poisonwood Bible, Orleanna's narrative looks back in time, while the other characters narrate from the present.
1) Why do you think Kingsolver included one narrative that looks back in time?
2) What does this type of narration add to the novel?
3) Why do you think Orleanna's character is the one looking back?
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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