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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. What does Anatole mourn for on January 17?
3. With what illness does Leah become sick?
4. What does Adah study in her work?
5. What does Adah miss by the end of Book 5?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Orleanna do after Ruth May's death? Why does she do this?
2. 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?
3. What living creature invades Kilanga? What do the villagers do?
4. What happened to Patrice Lumumba?
5. Why do you think Adah says that the loss of life isn't always unwelcome?
6. What does Tata Ndu want from the family in Book 3? How does the family respond?
7. Who is Brother Fowles? How is he different from Nathan?
8. Why do you think Adah begins to speak after Ruth May's death when she chose to remain silent before it?
9. Where does each of the girls go after Ruth May's death?
10. Why do you think Ruth May chooses a green mamba as the place that she wanted to be when she died?
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
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
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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