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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator drop off the kids in the first chapter?
(a) At their father's.
(b) At the neighbor's.
(c) At the hospital.
(d) At school.

2. Who believes in Communism?
(a) Pop.
(b) Agathe.
(c) Marie.
(d) Sankara.

3. What does Thomas not like to talk about?
(a) Music.
(b) Books.
(c) Movies.
(d) Plants.

4. Who does Marie hug for a long time at Helene's wake?
(a) Robbie.
(b) Pop.
(c) Daniel Slater.
(d) Agathe.

5. How long does the narrator sleep after the flight in Chapter 1?
(a) She does not sleep.
(b) 12 hours.
(c) 2 hours.
(d) 6 hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Helene insist the narrator wear as a child?

2. Who goes to the beach with Marie and the kids?

3. Who comes to Martinique for Marie?

4. What is Marie's favorite thing to do in the summer growing up?

5. Why was the early 1960s so frightening for the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Marie returns from getting groceries one summer?

2. What news does Helene give Marie at Tompkins Square Park?

3. Who took over Agathe's job as the mother figure when she left?

4. What happens when Marie first gets to her mother's house with the boys?

5. Who is Chris?

6. What bad news does Pop give Marie?

7. Who is the first person Marie understood to be a spy?

8. What is Marie's relationship with Agathe like after Helene's wake?

9. What does Thomas say about books?

10. What does Marie think of Thomas at first?

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