Poisonwood Bible

Question 1

author info

Answer 1

She is very much into culture, politics, and natural history as she writes many articles them. She was trained as a biologist before she became a full time writer.

Question 2

Publication info

Answer 2

1998

Question 3

Historical Contex

Answer 3

At the time when the country of Belgian was going through a political change.

Question 4

Setting

Answer 4

Belgian Congo- where they lived on the mission

South Africa- place Rachel goes after she leaves the congo

America- Place they lived before and after the congo

Question 5

images

Answer 5

The Poisonwood Tree

Question 6

motifs

Answer 6

Vision

Light and Dark

Language as Revelatory

Question 7

Themes

Answer 7

The Cultural Arrogance of the West.

Pantheism as a Superior Form of Religious Faith.

The Individuality of How to Deal with the Burden of Guilt.

The Impossibility of Absolute and Unambiguous Justice on a Global Scale.

Question 8

Leah Price

Answer 8

Out of all Nathan Price’s daughters, Leah changes the most… and the least. When she first comes to the Congo, at age fourteen and a half, she’s the type of girl who wants to be daddy’s favorite and still refers to her age as “and a half.” She’s about two steps away from putting on a white dress and a Promise Ring.

Question 9

Rachel Price

Answer 9

Snobby girl that leaves Congo asap

Question 10

Adah Price

Answer 10

born with hemiplegia, a disease that left her weaker on one side. It sure didn’t affect her brain, though, because she’s the smartest and most analytical of the family.

Question 11

Ruth May Price

Answer 11

Youngest out of the Price family and eventually dies due to a snake.

Question 12

Nathan Price

Answer 12

Controlling man that tries really hard to convert the people of the Congo.

Question 13

Orleanna Price

Answer 13

Mother of price family that is known to

Question 14

Anatol

Answer 14

Anatole is the orphan-turned-schoolteacher of Kilanga village who translates Nathan Price’s sermons and later marries his daughter, Leah.

Question 15

Aunt Elisabet

Answer 15

Aunt Elisabet mainly serves to illustrate how different Anatole’s and Leah’s cultures are

Question 16

Brother Fowles

Answer 16

The man the Prices took over the mission in Kilanga from, Brother Fowles, is a kind, compassionate foil to Nathan Price’s fire and brimstone Southern Baptist preacher. Fowles and Price couldn’t be more different.

Question 17

Axelroot

Answer 17

Eeben Axelroot is just as greasy and grimy as the “axle” that’s almost in his name. This pilot takes every opportunity he can to maximize his own profits, regardless of the expense to others: He sells the Prices their mail, he smuggles diamonds, and threatens five-year-old Ruth May when she sees them, even though she doesn’t know what they are; and he might just be relaying the information that gets Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected member of the Congo, assassinated.

Question 18

The Underdowns

Answer 18

The Underdowns are like the English-speaking welcome wagon to the Congo when the Prices arrive to take over the mission in Kilanga villages. They make fun of the Price family’s Southern accent, which is obnoxious, but let’s compare: the Prices don’t even call the Underdowns by their real name.

Question 19

Symbols

Answer 19

The Demonstration Garden

Methuselah, the Parrot

Question 20

Quotes

Answer 20

Quote 1: My father […] was bringing the Word of God — which fortunately weighs nothing at all.

Quote 2: This forest eats itself and lives forever.

Question 21

Tata Ndu

Answer 21

Tribe Leader

Question 22

Tata Kuvudundu

Answer 22

Witch doctor

Question 23

Methusela

Answer 23

Parrot

Question 24

Mama Tatana

Answer 24

legless woman