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The Poisonwood Bible

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Book One: Genesis
Book Two: The Revelation
Book Three: The Judges
Book Four: Bel and the Serpent
Book Five: Exodus
Book Six: Song of the Three Children
Book Seven: The Eyes in the Trees

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1:  When the Prices first reach Kilanga and the villagers herald their arrival with song, dance, and a feast, what prompts the celebratory mood to evaporate?

a. Orleanna's dislike of goat stew

b. The villagers' laughing at Rachel

c. The twins' getting into a fight

d. Nathan's angry sermon about sinfulness
2:  Methuselah does what most to annoy Nathan?

a. Curses

b. Spits

c. Claws

d. Escapes
3:  Absorbed with his own agenda, Nathan does not appreciate or even notice which of his daughter's strong adoration of him?

a. Rachel

b. Leah

c. Adah

d. Ruth May
4:  Why are the Kilangan villagers afraid to be baptized in the river by Nathan?

a. The river is dirty with silt.

b. A girl from the village was killed in the river by a crocodile.

c. The river runs too quickly to stand up in.

d. Rachel secretly tells the villagers that not to get baptized.
5:  Who is the Prices' neighbor who has no legs?

a. Mama Bekwa Tataba

b. Tata Boanda

c. Mama Mwanza

d. Pascal
6:  Ruth May befriends the village children and teaches them to play what game?

a. Mother, May I?

b. Kick the Can

c. Soccer

d. Stickball
7:  The Price family moves to Kilanga from what U.S. state?

a. Mississippi

b. North Carolina

c. Arkansas

d. Georgia
8:  Which Price girl breaks her arm while climbing a tree to spy on the "African Communist Boy Scouts" (the Jeune Mou Pro, or Congolese revolutionaries)?

a. Rachel

b. Leah

c. Adah

d. Ruth May
9:  Which Price girl nearly gets attacked by a lion as she is walking through forest?

a. Rachel

b. Leah

c. Adah

d. Ruth May
10:  How do the Kilanga men indicate which candidate they are voting for?

a. They throw one pebble into the bowl representing the candidate of their choice.

b. They write the candidate's name on a piece of paper and drop it in a box's slot.

c. A man writes down each male villager's name and next to that the candidate of his choice.

d. The chief decides whom the male villagers will vote for.
11:  Why do the older villagers most disapprove of Leah's hunting?

a. Hunting is unfeminine.

b. They are afraid she will hurt herself.

c. Leah is not good with a bow.

d. She is too young.
12:  How does Nathan die?

a. Old age

b. Liver cancer

c. In a fire set by villagers

d. In a canoe wreck on the river



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