Time and Places
Characters
Events
True or False?
Potpourri
100
In which decade do the initial events of the story take place?
Late 1950s-1960s
100
Who is the youngest Price?
Ruth May
100
Who falls from a tree and breaks their arm?
Ruth May
100
Adah is almost trampled to death by a stampede of Okapi.
False. She is almost trampled by villagers as they flee fire ants swarming.
100
Who is the author of The Poisonwood Bible?
Barbara Kingsolver
200
Where is the Price family originally from?
Bethlehem, Georgia
200
To whom was Rachel first married?
Eeben Axelroot
200
What does Leah do that goes against her father's wishes?
She participates in a hunt with the men.
200
Rachel leaves the village with Anatole.
False. Rachel flees with Eeben Axelroot, her "fiancee."
200
What is "the Verse"?
A punishment Nathan uses to make the girls copy down an extremely long verse from the Bible until they have learned their lesson.
300
What is the name of the village in which the Price family lives?
Kilanga
300
Ruth May gets this illness.
Malaria.
300
How does Ruth May die?
She is bitten by a snake.
300
The family took malaria pills every day while in the Congo.
True, with the exception of Ruth May, who was hiding her pills behind her bed.
300
What happens to Rachel in the end?
She marries several times and eventually is left to run a hotel /resort in Africa.
400
Where does Rachel go after leaving the Congo?
South Africa
400
Who is the leader of the village?
Tata Ndu
400
What happened on the night Adah was nearly trampled to death?
Fire ants swarmed the village.
400
Leah first befriends Pascal, but she eventually falls in love with and marries Anatole.
True.
400
What animal almost killed Adah?
A lion.
500
Where does Adah go to college once she returns to the States?
What is Atlanta, Georgia?
500
What is Leah's career after she marries Anatole?
A teacher.
500
Who kills Nathan and why?
He is burned to death by the Kilangese after he essentially kills a group of their children by taking them to be baptized in the river.
500
Nathan went with Orleanna and Adah back to the U.S.
False. Nathan stayed and continued to vainly attempt to teach the Kilangese Baptist Christianity until he was killed by the villagers.
500
What does bangala mean?
Either "most precious" or "Poisonwood tree" depending on how you say it.
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