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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tata Ndu want from the Prices?
(a) For the family to leave
(b) Nathan's blessing
(c) To marry Rachel
(d) Their chickens

2. Why can't the mother and daughters go to Kilanga?
(a) Adah can't walk anymore
(b) Mother's too old to make the journey
(c) A war
(d) A flood

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

4. What does Mother promise to help Rachel learn to do?
(a) Cook
(b) Braid her hair
(c) Haul water
(d) Needlecrafts

5. What does Axelroot tell Rachel?
(a) He loves her
(b) Patrice Lumumba is going to die
(c) Chief Ndu is going to be replaced
(d) He's going to help the family escape

6. What does Anatole tell Leah not to say?
(a) That she hates Africa
(b) That she loves him
(c) That she'll go with him to Leopoldville
(d) That she wants to go home

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

8. What becomes Orleanna's only purpose after Ruth May's death?
(a) Motion
(b) Meditation
(c) Forgiveness
(d) Quietness

9. Where are the woman and her three children in Book 7?
(a) Rachel's hotel
(b) Leah's house
(c) A market in Africa
(d) A restaurant in Africa

10. What does Leah wish that she could give to her father?
(a) The knowledge that you need to stick to your guns
(b) The relief of knowing you've done something wrong and can live through it
(c) The belief that family is the most important thing in life
(d) The desire to become African like she did

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

12. Where does Adah go to school?
(a) Georgetown University
(b) University of Florida
(c) Emory University
(d) Yale University

13. Where does Brother Fowles and his family live?
(a) On a boat
(b) In Leopoldville
(c) In Kilanga
(d) In a tree house

14. What is the name of the hotel that Rachel owns?
(a) African Queen
(b) Hotel de Africa
(c) Equatorial
(d) Hibiscus

15. What makes Mother get up?
(a) Ruth May needs a push on the swing
(b) Nathan tells her to
(c) Adah disappears
(d) Rachel burns an omelet

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the green mamba bite?

2. What never occurred to Orleanna before Ruth May died?

3. What did Ruth May see in Eeban Axelroot's plane?

4. What animal did the people around Lusambo think Nathan could turn into before they killed him?

5. With what illness does Leah become sick?

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