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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Sophie join her mother at work the first couple of months?
(a) Because school does not start for two months.
(b) Because she doesn't want to go to school.
(c) Because school doesn't start for five months.
(d) Because her mother wants her to work.

2. What is Sophie's mother's night job?
(a) Looking after a family.
(b) Looking after an old woman.
(c) Looking after an old man.
(d) Looking after a nurse.

3. When do Sophie and her mother have a serious conversation?
(a) Near the end of the summer.
(b) Near the end of the winter.
(c) Near the beginning of the summer.
(d) In the middle of the summer.

4. Where does Sophie's grandmother go with her face covered in ashes?
(a) To the cemetery.
(b) To church.
(c) To the market.
(d) To visit the neighbor.

5. In the story about the woman who stopped bleeding, who transforms the woman?
(a) Erzulie.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) Emily.
(d) Ursula.

Short Answer Questions

1. What life form does the woman in the story Sophie heard take on in order to stop bleeding?

2. When does Sophie see the light go out that she and her grandmother watch during supper?

3. What represents Sophie's mother in the poem?

4. What is Sophie watching the morning after Dessalines is killed?

5. When do Sophie and Joseph get married?

(see the answer key)

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