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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 does Orleanna put Ruth May's body?
2. What animal does Leah kill during the big hunt?
3. What do people vote with in the church election?
4. What becomes Orleanna's only purpose after Ruth May's death?
5. What does Orleanna do with the furniture?
Short Essay Questions
1. How has the Congo changed the Prices?
2. What happens during the big hunt?
3. What happens to Ruth May at the end of Book 4? What happens after this event?
4. Why do you think that Leah now feels uncomfortable in the United States?
5. What does Anatole find in his hut? What is this a sign of? What happens to Anatole?
6. Why do you think Ruth May chooses a green mamba as the place that she wanted to be when she died?
7. Where does each of the girls go after Ruth May's death?
8. What regrets does Orleanna voice about her family and the situation in the Congo?
9. What does Leah tell Anatole? What does he tell her in return? Why do you think he responds this way?
10. What living creature invades Kilanga? What do the villagers do?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Kingsolver brings the United States into the novel in several different ways. What role did the United States play in the Congo at a national and village level? What does Kingsolver seem to think about the United States' role in the events in the Congo? Do you think the United States should have been involved in the Congo?
Essay Topic 2
What is the importance of names in the novel? How are names important for people in the novel? What is the importance of naming something wrong in the novel?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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