The Farming of Bones | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1

1. What does the narrator have recurrent nightmares about?

Her parents drowning

2. How have Sebastien's hands become scarred?

Cutting sugar cane stalks

3. What does the narrator say she played with when she was a child?

Her shadow

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways the narrator characterizes Sebastien?

Moody

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

He wants her to learn to trust him even when she cannot see him

6. Who does the narrator believe is the only person who truly knows her?

Sebastien

7. Where is Sebastien when the narrator wakes up?

Working in the sugar cane fields

8. Why does the narrator's father caution her against playing with her shadow?

He believes it will cause nightmares

9. Why does the narrator prefer her shadow to other children?

Her shadow makes...
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