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

2. What does Leah kill on the anniversary of Ruth May's death?
(a) Tata Kuvudundu
(b) An antelope
(c) A snake
(d) Nathan Price

3. What color is inside the green mamba's mouth?
(a) Brown
(b) Black
(c) Blue
(d) Green

4. What does Nathan preach about in the boat?
(a) Revelations
(b) The Ten Commandments
(c) The birth of Jesus
(d) The Eygptians and the plagues

5. What new name was the Congo given?
(a) Zaire
(b) Uganda
(c) Kenya
(d) Tanzania

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Adah study in her work?

2. What does Adah miss by the end of Book 5?

3. What does Anatole mourn for on January 17?

4. What does Axelroot tell Rachel?

5. What becomes Orleanna's only purpose after Ruth May's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think that Leah now feels uncomfortable in the United States?

2. What does Tata Ndu want from the family in Book 3? How does the family respond?

3. How has the Congo changed the Prices?

4. What does Leah want to do with the men in the village? Who is not happy about this? How does Leah get her way?

5. What happens to Ruth May at the end of Book 4? What happens after this event?

6. What living creature invades Kilanga? What do the villagers do?

7. Who is Brother Fowles? How is he different from Nathan?

8. What do Rachel and Adah learn? From where do they each learn this?

9. What happens during the big hunt?

10. What does Anatole find in his hut? What is this a sign of? What happens to Anatole?

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