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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What makes Mother get up?

3. What does Nelson say is on the chicken house?

4. What does Mother promise to help Rachel learn to do?

5. What does Anatole tell Leah not to say?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rachel think that she can't go back to the United States now?

2. Where does each of the girls go after Ruth May's death?

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

4. Why do you think Adah begins to speak after Ruth May's death when she chose to remain silent before it?

5. Why do you think Adah says that the loss of life isn't always unwelcome?

6. What happened to Patrice Lumumba?

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

8. How has the Congo changed the Prices?

9. What does Nelson give to Ruth May? What does he tell her to do with it?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the similarities between the Prices' marriage and the relationship of the Belgians to the Congo? What do you think Nathan and the Belgians should have done differently?

Essay Topic 2

Children are often noted as being more observant. Do you think Ruth May was more observant than other members of her family? What things did she see that her other family members did not? Do you think that her curious nature got her into trouble?

Essay Topic 3

A number of symbols are used within the novel. Choose one symbol and answer the following?

1) What is the symbol and what does it represent?

2) How does Kingsolver use the symbol in the novel?

3) Trace the symbol through the novel and note when it appears.

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