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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How far did Orleanna and the family have to carry water?
(a) A half a mile
(b) One mile
(c) A mile and a half
(d) From the kitchen
2. Who is put in charge of the chickens?
(a) Ruth May
(b) Adah
(c) Leah
(d) Rachel
3. All the men in the village are called what?
(a) Uncle
(b) Father
(c) Brother
(d) Tata
4. In what year did Orleanna and her family leave the United States?
(a) 1934
(b) 1980
(c) 1960
(d) 1876
5. Who is the new Prime Minister of the Congo?
(a) Pascal Mwanza
(b) Anatole Tataba
(c) Patrice Lumumba
(d) Tata Ndu
6. What do the girls find after the rain?
(a) An old shirt
(b) A toy boat
(c) A basket
(d) A nest of birds
7. How many pounds of luggage per person were the Prices allowed on the plane?
(a) 150 pounds
(b) 20 pounds
(c) 44 pounds
(d) 75 pounds
8. What does Nathan Price do with the hills that Mama Tataba made in the garden?
(a) Levels them out
(b) Ignores them
(c) Uses them as a model for his own hills
(d) Plants seed in them
9. When the family arrives, the country is on the brink of what?
(a) A bomb going off
(b) A drought
(c) A thunderstorm
(d) A civil war
10. Where does Rachel want to spend the year in Africa?
(a) Making new clothes
(b) Learning about the Congo
(c) Swimming in the river
(d) In bed
11. What takes up half the day in the Congo?
(a) Cooking
(b) Visiting people
(c) Caring for the chickens
(d) Praying
12. What does Nelson tell Ruth May to say instead of "snake?"
(a) Reptile
(b) Spagetti
(c) Worm
(d) String
13. Who doesn't always take her quinine pills?
(a) Ruth May
(b) Orleanna
(c) Rachel
(d) Adah
14. Orleanna's journey in Africa come to what kind of end?
(a) Serene
(b) Confusing
(c) Awful
(d) Beautiful
15. What does this chapter reveal about what is going to happen?
(a) The Price's house burns down
(b) A civil war breaks out in the Congo
(c) The family returns to the United States
(d) One of Orleanna's daughters is buried in Africa
Short Answer Questions
1. Who believes that the village is in a moral decline because more people are going to church?
2. Who comes for dinner at the Price's house?
3. Leah helps her father where?
4. In Book 1, to where do the women and the girls go through the forest?
5. Who is the first of the Prices to interact with the village children?
This section contains 400 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |
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