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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the mother and daughters want to go back to Kilanga?
(a) To look for the things that they left behind
(b) To put a grave marker up for the youngest daughter
(c) To kill the man who killed the youngest daughter
(d) To find their father

2. What did Ruth May see in Eeban Axelroot's plane?
(a) Diamonds
(b) Guns
(c) Oil
(d) Dynomite

3. What do the girls find when they take Ruth May's bed away from the wall?
(a) Ruth May's sock monkey
(b) A snake
(c) Spiders
(d) Malaria pills

4. How did Orleanna stay alive after Ruth May's death?
(a) Instinct
(b) Desire
(c) Will
(d) Necessity

5. What does Adah miss by the end of Book 5?
(a) The old Adah
(b) The Congo
(c) Mama Tataba
(d) Nathan Price

6. When was the last time that the mother and her three daughters were all together?
(a) The day that the father was buried
(b) One of the daughter's college graduation
(c) The death of the youngest child
(d) The oldest child's 50th birthday

7. What happens to Patrice Lumumba?
(a) He is exile to the United States
(b) He is reinstated as president
(c) He is beaten and killed
(d) He goes into hiding for twenty years

8. What does Anatole find in his bed before the big hunt?
(a) A scorpion
(b) A lion cub
(c) A knife
(d) A green mamba

9. Whose picture did Orleanna have in the kitchen house?
(a) Kennedy
(b) Nixon
(c) Roosevelt
(d) Eisenhower

10. What does Nelson say is on the chicken house?
(a) Paint
(b) An evil sign
(c) A lion
(d) An owl

11. How much money does the United States provide for loyalty?
(a) One hundred thousand dollars
(b) One billion dollars
(c) One million dollars
(d) One thousand dollars

12. Who is the last of Leah and Anatole's children?
(a) Nataniel
(b) Pascal
(c) Patrice
(d) Martin-Lothaire

13. Adah collects books that have what in them?
(a) Stains
(b) Bad characters
(c) Missing pages
(d) Misprints

14. What animal does Leah kill during the big hunt?
(a) Monkey
(b) Water buffalo
(c) Impala
(d) Elk

15. Where is Orleanna when she listens to the Congressional hearings?
(a) London
(b) Kilanga
(c) Atlanta
(d) New York

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't the mother and daughters go to Kilanga?

2. What new name was the Congo given?

3. Who does the green mamba bite?

4. What is Leah learning?

5. What does Leah kill on the anniversary of Ruth May's death?

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