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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the female narrator hear over the radio at the end of the story?
(a) The new president is back.
(b) A boat was intercepted by the coast guard.
(c) Her boyfriend's voice.
(d) A boat sank off the coast of the Bahamas.

2. What does the female narrator say her father moves like when she thanks him?
(a) A butterfly.
(b) A true father.
(c) A bear.
(d) A soldier.

3. Who says, "it had happened before all over this country and tonight it will happen again and there is nothing we can do?"
(a) The female narrator.
(b) The narrator's father.
(c) Madan Roger.
(d) Manman.

4. What announcement is the second narrator waiting for?
(a) A message from her boyfriend.
(b) The university exams.
(c) The arrival of the president.
(d) The end of the gasoline ban.

5. What does the female narrator refer to the soldiers as?
(a) Pigs.
(b) Jerks.
(c) None of the above.
(d) The authority.

6. Why is the second narrator listening for the first narrator's name on the radio?
(a) To hear his political opinion.
(b) To see if he passed the University exams.
(c) To see if he is still alive.
(d) To see if the soldiers let him go free.

7. Why does the female narrator think her boyfriend might be dead?
(a) It rains constantly.
(b) She can't feel his soul any longer.
(c) She heard news of a boat sinking.
(d) His notebook washed up on shore.

8. What rumor spreads in Haiti?
(a) That the president is dead.
(b) That the president is coming back.
(c) That the president was assassinated.
(d) That the new president will save the country.

9. Who is Manman?
(a) Their neighbor.
(b) The female narrator's father.
(c) The female narrator's mother.
(d) The maid.

10. Why doesn't the second narrator sketch butterflies anymore?
(a) Because she doesn't know how.
(b) Because her father forbids her to.
(c) She does not say.
(d) Because Madan Roger told her the black ones bring bad news.

11. Who says, "I don't know what is going to happen, but I cannot see staying here forever?"
(a) The narrator's father.
(b) Madan Roger.
(c) Manman.
(d) The female narrator.

12. How does the second narrator pass time in the house?
(a) Knitting.
(b) Killing cockroaches.
(c) Organizing Radio Six.
(d) Singing songs.

13. Who says, "A banyan could become a forest if it were given a chance?"
(a) The narrator's father.
(b) Manman.
(c) Madan Roger.
(d) The narrator.

14. Who says, "all anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too"?
(a) Madan Roger.
(b) Manman.
(c) The female narrator.
(d) The female narrator's father.

15. Who used to be a gardener?
(a) Manman.
(b) The narrator's father.
(c) The narrator's boyfriend.
(d) Madan Roger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens between the female narrator's family in the latrine?

2. What is the setting the second narrator is in?

3. What did the female narrator see as they were driving out of the city?

4. What kind of tree does the second narrator stand underneath?

5. What does the female narrator's father find in her room?

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