Mrs. Talley Humanities Name: Date: The Poisonwood Bible Book Three The Judges Due December 6, 2015 Orleanna 1. What do you think the title of this book might foreshadow? 2. Why does Orleanna begin this chapter with reasons women can t throw stones at their husbands? What motif does this exemplify? 3. How does Orleanna liken herself to the Congo? Why? The Things We Didn t Know 4. Why is it significant that feels a throb of dread when she arrives back in Kilanga? 5. How has life changed for the Prices now that the Congo is independent? 6. Explain the significance of Nelson misunderstanding the story of Job. 7. What theme is emphasized as speaks of Nathan s wildly half-baked Kikongo?
8. How does this chapter further develop the theme of guilt? Ruth May 9. What is Ruth May s primary feeling toward her father? 10. Why do you think this chapter is so short compared to those around it? 11. How does Nathan respond to Orleanna and Ruth May s sickness, and what does this say about his character? 12. Why does claim that the Price girls have lost their childhoods overnight? To what does that allude? 13. How does s wordplay in this chapter challenge Nathan s idea that the Lord works in mysterious ways? 14. When asks if her country has done something bad, Anatole responds, Not you, Béene. How is this significant? 15. and Anatole s conversation covers many topics. What theme (or themes) of the novel does this conversation emphasize? 16. What does the conversation between and Anatole reveal about s changing attitudes towards the Congolese?
17. Why is the reader presented with the news of tumultuous political events through s narration? 18. How does the final paragraph of the chapter reveal a change in s characterization? Ruth May 19. Why is the reader presented with tumultuous political events through Ruth May s narration this time? 20. How do Nathan and Orleanna interpret the meek shall inherit differently? 21. What is Ruth May s nkisi, and what is its function? What might Nelson giving the nkisi to Ruth May foreshadow? 22. How does Orleanna s new-found voice affect? 23. Discuss s doubts about her father. What theme does her doubt develop? 24. Contrast Brother Fowles s ideas about the Bible with Nathan s. 25. Contrast Brother Fowles s ideas about the Congolese with Nathan s. 26. How does Brother Fowles serve as Nathan s foil?
27. What lasting effect did Brother Fowles have on the doctrine of marriage in Kilanga? 28. Why does Tata Ndu want to marry? What does this suggest about his character? 29. What is peculiar to about the native system of government? 30. What do the Prices find stuck to the wall behind Ruth May s bed? 31. Look at the last paragraph of the chapter, in which says, I prefer to remain anomalous. How is this particular malapropism significant, and how do s continued malapropisms define her character? Ruth May 32. How does circumcision become a point of discussion for the Prices? How do Nathan and Orleanna respond? 33. In this chapter, Ruth May chooses where she will disappear if she uses her nkisi. Where does she choose? 34. How do s sisters disappoint and anger her on her birthday?
35. Explain what reveals in this chapter. What is its significance to the title? What themes are emphasized by Nathan s mispronunciation? 36. Why is the fact that is the first narrator to mention Nathan s mispronunciation consistent with her character? 37. Discuss the technique of spelling each of her family member s names backwards. What does this reveal? 38. What does s growing interest in language reveal about her character? 39. How do the natives feel about s skill with a bow? 40. Explain s allusion to Hester Prynne. 41. Analyze this chapter. What do we learn through here? 42. How is s character further developed in this section? What do we discover about her? 43. Analyze s reference to Emily Dickinson. What is the significance of the section?
,,, Ruth May 44. Through these four sections, analyze the night of the ants. What is revealed through these narrations? What themes are revealed here? 45. Analyze s last narration in this book. What has changed? How does this relate to the title of the book? To the Subtitle?