Time and Places
Characters
Events
True or False?
Parts Unknown
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
From what country did Tony & his crew enter the Congo?
Rwanda
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 kind of transportation center (which has mostly receded into the jungle) do Tony and his crew visit?
Railway or train station.
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 is Tony given by the chief in the village he and the crew visit?
A bracelet.
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
How do the local fishermen fish?
Using baskets set up in the river.
500
Where does Adah work after she goes to college?
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control).
500
What is the name of the witch doctor who puts the chicken bones outside the Prices' house?
Tata Kuvundundu
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 is the book that Tony continually references during the episode?
"Heart of Darkness"
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