Nathan
Nathan Price has brought his family to the Congo for this reason.
He is a missionary and he is going to baptize the village of Kilanga.
Orleanna Price runs into this creature.
Okapi
Where is the Price Family originally from?
Georgia
This daughter appears to be a follower of Reverend Nathan Price.
Leah
What is the rhetorical device being used here: "There we sat, draped like tired bridesmaids."
Simile
Why do Nathan's seeds not grow?
He puts them in the flat ground instead of mounds.
Orleanna speaks to this person in her mind in the opener.
Her daughter that died
What religion is the Price Family?
Evangelical Baptist
This child is the first to make friends in the Congo. She does so by playing "Mother May I"
Ruth May
What is the rhetorical device being used here: "Vines strangling their own kin in the everlasting wrestle for sunlight"
Personification
Why does no one want to get baptized in the river?
It is filled with man-eating crocodiles
In Genesis, Orleanna speaks in this tense.
Past
What are some of the items that the Price Family brings to the Congo?
A thimble, a pair of scissors, Band-Aids, a hand-mirror, and Betty Crocker cake mixes.
This daughter figures out that Eeben Axelroot is participating illegally in the diamond trade.
Ruth May
What is the rhetorical device being used here: "She tucks her dress under her legs and inspects her poor, featherless fee in their grass nest."
Imagery
Who is the man that Nathan has a religious debate with?
Brother Fowell
Orleanna grew up in this state.
Mississippi
The Price family notices these cultural differences when they arrive in Kalinga.
Dress codes, language, behavior, food, etc.
What is the significance of Adah's near encounter with the Lion?
The village people take Adah's survival as a sign that God is powerful and the church attendance is greatly boosted.
What is the rhetorical device being used here: "Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened."
Foreshadowing
What negative misconceptions does Nathan hold onto about the people of the Congo?
Nathan Price believes that the ways of the white people are superior to the ways of the black Congolese people.
Orleanna opens the book with a guilty tone. What does this guilt symbolize for America?
The collective cultural guilt that all Westerners must share for the crimes perpetrated against the people of Africa.
According to the Price family, God says the Africans are descendants of this tribe.
The tribe of Ham
What is foreshadowing about the way the daughters treat their hope chest projects?
We can foresee that Rachael is eager to have boyfriends, Leah wants true love and Adah is simple not interested in relationships.
What is the rhetorical device being used here: "a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps."
Style