Orleanna Price
Leah Price
Rachel Price Axelroot
Adah Price
Nathan Price
100
How does Orleanna deal with her grief?
She keeps moving
100
As they walk towards Leopoldville, Leah learns to draw back her lips and breathe slowly through her teeth in order to avoid choking on what?
What are mosquitoes?
100
Rachel now claims to be fluent in how many languages?
Three
100
What college does Adah Price now attend?
Emory University
100
With whom does Nathan now live in Kilanga?
He lives alone
200
"________ was something that happened to us, as devastating in its way as the burning roof that fell on the family Mwanza; with our fate scarred by hell and brimstone we still had to track our course." --Orleanna Price
Who is Nathan?
200
What does Leah realize she can do in this section that she had not tried since their arrival to the Congo?
Balancing her parcel on her head
200
When Rachel first arrived in Johannesburg she stayed with an American couple for the first time. What was their last name?
Templeton
200
When taking the college entrance exam, Adah didn't miss a single question in which subject?
mathematics
200
Nathan's war medal was not for heroic service, but for.....
Having been wounded and having survived
300
Orleanna lists four words that mean "squat" when you have hungry children, clothes to get out on the line, and it looks like rain. Name one.
What is conquest, liberation, democracy, or divorce
300
In what regard does Leah believe her father's mission has been a success?
the Congolese loved their music
300
What is Eeben Axelroot's number-one secret, according to Rachel?
"I need another beer!"
300
Upon arriving in Georgia, what does Adah stare at "for the longest time" while overwhelmed with the shock of return?
a neatly painted yellow line on a neatly formed cement curb
300
Nathan moved into a hut in the woods that he was calling the New Church of Eternal Life, Jesus is Bangala. Leah claims that his church was too close to what?
The cemetery
400
Orleanna believes that Nathan and people like him will always lose in the end because they all make the same mistake. What is that mistake?
They stand still (and their stake moves underneath them)
400
When Malaria starts to set in while on their walk, Leah explains that she could feel the poison moving through her bloodstream like _________ .
What is thick, tainted honey?
400
Complete this quote: "Sometimes you just have to _____ ____ _____ and work out the details later." --Rachel Price Axelroot
"save your neck"
400
Once back in Georgia, Adah is visited in her dreams by Ruth May and many of the children buried near her. What do they cry out?
"Mother may I?"
400
What were the unofficial conditions of Nathan's discharge? Name two of the three.
Cowardice, guilt, and disgrace.
500
Orleanna notes that Japan was forbidden to make engines of war but still one the world by making these instead.
What are Automobiles?
500
Leah recovers from Malaria with the help of Anatole in a hut that belongs to who?
One of Anatole's former students
500
When Eeben's plane took off the day he flew Rachel out of the Congo, what did Rachel realize she had forgotten?
Her "hope chest"
500
What does Adah describe as "a friend I have known for a long time, a two-faced goddess looking forward and back with a clear, earnest suspicion of good fortune"?
Betrayal
500
Leah learns that their hut in Kilanga burned down. According to Tata Boanda Nathan probably burned down the hut doing what?
trying to toast meat over a kerosene flame