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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. The Prices make it look like Rachel is engaged to whom?
2. Who is the last of Leah and Anatole's children?
3. What does Rachel choose to save from the house?
4. What does Anatole mourn for on January 17?
5. What does Axelroot tell Rachel?
Short Essay Questions
1. What living creature invades Kilanga? What do the villagers do?
2. Why do you think that Leah now feels uncomfortable in the United States?
3. What regrets does Orleanna voice about her family and the situation in the Congo?
4. Why do you think Ruth May chooses a green mamba as the place that she wanted to be when she died?
5. What happened to Patrice Lumumba?
6. What does Leah want to do with the men in the village? Who is not happy about this? How does Leah get her way?
7. How has the Congo changed the Prices?
8. What does Anatole find in his hut? What is this a sign of? What happens to Anatole?
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. Why do you think Adah says that the loss of life isn't always unwelcome?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Compare and contrast the religions, cultures, and other differences between the Congo and the United States. Which characters in the novel seem to bridge these differences? Which ones do not?
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