How Beautiful We Were Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 29:

1.

Why are the villagers afraid to touch Konga? (from Chapters 1 - 2)

The Pexton representatives prohibit them from touching him.

Konga is ill with a transmittable disease.

They believe they will be cursed if they touch a madman.

Woja Beki has instructed everyone in the village to leave him alone.

2.

Who is the first villager to openly defy the Pexton representatives by stealing their keys? (from Chapters 1 - 2)

Woja Beki

Lusaka

Konga

Thula

3.

Which character in the novel struggles from depression, ostensibly brought about by childhood sexual abuse? (from Chapter 7 - 8)

Sahel.

Malabo.

Big Papa.

Thula.

4.

Why don't the Pexton representatives' families immediately report them as missing persons? (from Chapters 3 - 4)

The representatives had no families.

The families were being threatened by Pexton to stay silent.

The representatives had been expected to make additional stops in other villages after leaving Kosawa.

Missing persons reports are not followed up on by the government.

5.

In the ancestral story of the village, what does the jaguar do when the three brothers release her? (from Chapters 1 - 2)

She kills the younger two.

She makes a blood pact with the brothers.

She gives the brothers free reign to hunt the forest for one hundred years.

She disappears into the forest.

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