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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. Where is Orleanna when she listens to the Congressional hearings?

2. With what illness does Leah become sick?

3. What does Ruth May have to do to get her spirit in the bone, according to Nelson?

4. What does Tata Ndu want from the Prices?

5. In what year does the CIA suggest replacing the Congolese government?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has the Congo changed the Prices?

2. Why do you think Ruth May chooses a green mamba as the place that she wanted to be when she died?

3. What living creature invades Kilanga? What do the villagers do?

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

5. What do Rachel and Adah learn? From where do they each learn this?

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

7. Why do you think Adah begins to speak after Ruth May's death when she chose to remain silent before it?

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

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

10. Where does each of the girls go after Ruth May's death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

A number of symbols are used within the novel. Choose one symbol and answer the following?

1) What is the symbol and what does it represent?

2) How does Kingsolver use the symbol in the novel?

3) Trace the symbol through the novel and note when it appears.

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