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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the animal that Orleanna remembers seeing in Book 1?
(a) Lion
(b) Okapi
(c) Gorilla
(d) Meerkat

2. When is Rachel's birthday?
(a) May
(b) November
(c) August
(d) January

3. Where did Orleanna meet Nathan?
(a) In college
(b) At a tent revival
(c) At a friend's home
(d) In high school

4. Who doesn't always take her quinine pills?
(a) Ruth May
(b) Orleanna
(c) Adah
(d) Rachel

5. All the men in the village are called what?
(a) Father
(b) Uncle
(c) Brother
(d) Tata

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the people not want their children to go down to the riverbank?

2. Why does Adah now think that she and Leah have separate lives even though they are twins?

3. What is painted on Mother's oval platter?

4. In Book 1, Orleanna says that Africa afflicted her like what?

5. What happens to families in Nathan's congregation that lose a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Ruth May in Book 2 as she is spying on the Jimmy Crow boys? What does she discover in the events that take place?

2. What does Nathan want to happen on the day of the church picnic? Does this happen? Why or why not?

3. How does Orleanna survive in the Congo amid all the hard work?

4. What happens when the family first arrives in the Congo?

5. Book 2 opens with a startling revelation about the Price family. What does the Orleanna say is going to happen to the family? What do you think will happen in the rest of the book to make this come true?

6. In Book 1, Rachel feels like the family is "in for it" in the Congo. Why do you think that Rachel feels this way?

7. How does the relationship between the Price girls and the village children change in Book 2?

8. What is Leah's relationship with her father like in Book 1?

9. What does Nathan Price's opinion of women seem to be based on the events and narration in Book 1?

10. Where do Nathan and Leah go in Book 2? What do they see?

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