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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said, "Oh yes, you can let them kill somebody because you are afraid. They are the law. It is their right?"
(a) The narrator's mother.
(b) Madan Roger.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) The female narrator.

2. Where does the female narrator's mother talk to her?
(a) In the house.
(b) Under the banyan tree.
(c) In the car.
(d) At the dinner table.

3. Where is the female narrator's family headed?
(a) Miami.
(b) The Bahamas.
(c) Port au Prince.
(d) Ville Rose.

4. What does the female narrator do when she sees the black butterfly?
(a) Catches it in a net.
(b) She runs away so it won't land on her.
(c) Tries to kill it.
(d) Reaches out her hand for it.

5. What kind of tree does the second narrator stand underneath?
(a) A maple tree.
(b) A Banyan tree.
(c) A palm tree.
(d) A Magnolia tree.

6. How long does the female narrator say banyan trees last?
(a) Fifty years.
(b) One year.
(c) Hundreds of years.
(d) Ten years.

7. 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) The female narrator.
(b) The female narrator's father.
(c) Manman.
(d) Madan Roger.

8. 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) Manman.
(b) Madan Roger.
(c) The female narrator.
(d) The female narrator's father.

9. Who said, "If only i knew some good wanga magic, I would wipe them off the face of the earth?"
(a) The second narrator's father.
(b) The second narrator.
(c) Madan Roger.
(d) Madan.

10. What is the female narrator's father waiting for before they can leave the city?
(a) The gasoline ban to be lifted.
(b) To hear news about the first narrator.
(c) The radio group to disband.
(d) Soldiers to escort them out.

11. What part of the female narrator's body shivers when she thinks of her boyfriend in danger?
(a) Her heart.
(b) Her hair.
(c) Her skin.
(d) Her arms.

12. Who says, "Behind these mountains are more mountains and more black butterflies still and a sea that is endless like my love for you?"
(a) Neither.
(b) The female narrator.
(c) The male narrator.
(d) Both.

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

14. What is the setting the second narrator is in?
(a) The Bahamas.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Miami.
(d) A boat at sea.

15. What do black butterflies bring?
(a) Warnings of death.
(b) It does not say.
(c) Hope.
(d) Happy news.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's father do the day the family leaves the city?

2. What is there a lot of in Ville Rose?

3. Who says, "it had happened before all over this country and tonight it will happen again and there is nothing we can do?"

4. How does the second narrator pass time in the house?

5. What did the female narrator's neighbor Madan Roger come home with?

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