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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lina teach Florens about men?
(a) They can be loving and cruel.
(b) They can not be trusted.
(c) They are all different.
(d) They are powerful and cruel.

2. What does minha mae mean?
(a) The beacon.
(b) My watcher.
(c) My mother.
(d) The light.

3. Who is Florens's father?
(a) The black smith.
(b) The Reverend Father.
(c) We don't know.
(d) One of the D'Ortega boys.

4. How does Rebekka know she is ill?
(a) She has sores in her mouth.
(b) She gets a rash.
(c) She is tired.
(d) Her hair is falling out.

5. How old was Florens when she came to where she lives at the beginning of the book?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Minha Mae give her son away?

2. What happens when Rebekka's fever gets worse?

3. Why isn't Sorrow allowed to use something?

4. What illness does Rebekka have?

5. What kind of people did Rebekka avoid in Virginia?

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