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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How have Sebastien's hands become scarred?
(a) Building his home
(b) Cutting sugar cane stalks
(c) Escaping from the Dominican Republic
(d) Working in the sugar factory

2. What does the narrator have recurrent nightmares about?
(a) Sebastien leaving her
(b) Sebastien dying
(c) Her parents drowning
(d) Her parents abandoning her

3. Where does Sebastien work?
(a) In the corn fields
(b) In the same home as the narrator
(c) In the sugar cane fields
(d) In a sugar factory

4. Why does Senora Valencia ask Amabelle to light a candle after the babies are born?
(a) To honor the Virgin Mary
(b) To be able to see the children better
(c) It is now night
(d) To alert her husband that the babies have arrived

5. Why is Senora Valencia surprised when the first baby is born?
(a) It is a boy and she expected to have a girl
(b) The baby's skin color is much darker than her own
(c) She wanted Dr. Javier to deliver the baby
(d) It is a girl and she expected to have a boy

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator?

2. Where did Amabelle often sleep when she was a young girl?

3. Where is this first part of the novel set?

4. Why does Sebastien insist on remaining in the dark while with the narrator?

5. Which of the following is NOT a piece of advice Amabelle gives Senora Valencia to help ease the pain of childbirth?

(see the answer key)

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