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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the father do when the female narrator thanks him?
(a) Moves his hand away and grunts.
(b) Gives her a hug.
(c) Cries.
(d) Laughs.

3. Where do the Haitian people gather to meet the president?
(a) The capitol.
(b) The president's house.
(c) The airport.
(d) The port.

4. What does the female narrator say has become her "most trusted friend?"
(a) Manman.
(b) Butterflies.
(c) The banyan tree.
(d) Her journal.

5. Who says, "People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us?"
(a) Madan Roger.
(b) The narrator's father.
(c) Manman.
(d) The narrator.

6. Why aren't Manman and the narrator's father speaking to one another?
(a) They are thinking of divorce.
(b) Because of what happened the night soldiers came to Madan Roger's house.
(c) Because of how he treats the narrator.
(d) It is not proper to speak to one another in public.

7. How old is the second narrator?
(a) Nineteen or twenty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Twelve.

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

9. Who is the female narrator referring to in this sentence, "I wish he would catch a bullet so we could see how scared he really is"?
(a) Her father.
(b) Manman.
(c) Her Uncle.
(d) Her boyfriend.

10. How does the female narrator bathe herself?
(a) In the stream during the day.
(b) Under the banyan tree at noon.
(c) By warming water in the sun and waiting until night to bathe under the banyan tree.
(d) In the stream in the morning.

11. What does the female narrator say about hail?
(a) It falls like golf balls from the sky.
(b) It fall like angry tears from heaven.
(c) It is calming.
(d) It is annoying.

12. What promise does the female narrator reaffirm?
(a) To avenge her lover's death.
(b) To marry someone that can take care of her.
(c) To obey her father no matter what.
(d) To keep writing, and he will keep writing as well.

13. What did the female narrator see as they were driving out of the city?
(a) They could not leave the city.
(b) A soldier shaving a woman's head.
(c) Madan Roger.
(d) A koala bear.

14. Who says, "You want to kill me too? Go ahead. I don't care anymore. I'm dead already. You have already done the worst to me that you can do. You have killed my soul?"
(a) The female narrator.
(b) Madan Roger.
(c) Manman.
(d) The female narrator's father.

15. What do bright butterflies bring?
(a) Death.
(b) Hope.
(c) Sad news.
(d) Happy news.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the soldiers asking Madan Roger?

2. What leads the narrator to believe her boyfriend is dead?

3. What happened at the airport?

4. Why does the female narrator thank her father?

5. What rumor spreads in Haiti?

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