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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 kind of person does Orleanna think that Nathan is?
(a) The type to appreciate differences
(b) The type that stands still
(c) The type to love other unconditionally
(d) The type to walk away
2. What does Nathan preach about in the boat?
(a) The Eygptians and the plagues
(b) The Ten Commandments
(c) Revelations
(d) The birth of Jesus
3. What does Ruth May have to do to get her spirit in the bone, according to Nelson?
(a) Hold it to her heart
(b) Step on it
(c) Breath in the hole
(d) Will her spirit into it
4. What becomes Orleanna's only purpose after Ruth May's death?
(a) Motion
(b) Meditation
(c) Forgiveness
(d) Quietness
5. Who does Rachel think is the cause of all the problems?
(a) Leah
(b) Nathan
(c) Adah
(d) Anatole
Short Answer Questions
1. What new name was the Congo given?
2. According to Ruth May, who is last in the family?
3. Whose picture did Orleanna have in the kitchen house?
4. Who has not changed in the Congo?
5. Who gets left behind as the family flees?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do you think Ruth May chooses a green mamba as the place that she wanted to be when she died?
2. Why do you think that Leah now feels uncomfortable in the United States?
3. What do you think Kingsolver means when she has the woman in the market say that there has never been a village past Bulungu and that she doesn't know of anywhere called Kilanga?
4. Where does each of the girls go after Ruth May's death?
5. What does Orleanna do after Ruth May's death? Why does she do this?
6. Why does Rachel think that she can't go back to the United States now?
7. What does Nelson give to Ruth May? What does he tell her to do with it?
8. Who is Brother Fowles? How is he different from Nathan?
9. What regrets does Orleanna voice about her family and the situation in the Congo?
10. Orleanna characterizes Nathan as someone who stands still. What does she mean by this?
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