Q 01/05

In The Poisonwood Bible, Nathan Price means bängala to call Jesus what, though his accent turns it into a toxic tree?

A) All-powerful

B) Most precious

C) Ever merciful

D) Newly risen

Answer · why

B) Most precious

Most precious is what Nathan intends, but said his hurried way the Kikongo word names the poisonwood tree, so every sermon ends by likening Jesus to a...

Q 02/05

In The Poisonwood Bible, which snake, left in the chicken house as a curse, kills young Ruth May Price?

A) A puff adder

B) A Gaboon viper

C) A green mamba

D) A spitting cobra

Answer · why

C) A green mamba

A green mamba bites her as the sisters check the coop at dawn, and Leah later mourns her every January 17, the day Patrice Lumumba was also killed.

Q 03/05

In The Poisonwood Bible, which parrot, left behind by the previous missionary, shocks the Prices with its swearing?

A) Methuselah

B) Nebuchadnezzar

C) Ezekiel

D) Zechariah

Answer · why

A) Methuselah

Methuselah is thrown out of his cage by Nathan but lingers near the house, and is killed on the very day the Congo becomes independent.

Q 04/05

In The Poisonwood Bible, what keeps Kilanga's villagers from letting Nathan Price baptize their children in the river?

A) Hippopotamuses

B) Strong currents

C) River spirits

D) Crocodiles

Answer · why

D) Crocodiles

Crocodiles had killed a village girl in that river the year before, so to her neighbors Nathan's pleas sound like a plan to feed their children to the...

Q 05/05

In The Poisonwood Bible, what overruns Kilanga one night, forcing the whole village to flee to boats on the river?

A) A column of ants

B) A swarm of locusts

C) A band of soldiers

D) A herd of elephants

Answer · why

A) A column of ants

A column of ants eats everything in its path, and in the panic Orleanna carries Ruth May to safety and leaves Adah behind, a choice that haunts them b...