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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sophie keep dreaming about?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her dog.

2. How do Sophie and her aunt travel the rest of the trek to the grandmother?
(a) By van.
(b) By cart.
(c) By foot.
(d) By mule.

3. When do Sophie and her mother have a serious conversation?
(a) Near the beginning of the summer.
(b) Near the end of the winter.
(c) Near the end of the summer.
(d) In the middle of the summer.

4. What do Sophie and her grandmother buy at the market?
(a) Bread.
(b) Beans.
(c) Meat.
(d) Bananas.

5. What is Louise selling on the side of the road?
(a) Cola.
(b) Fish.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Vegetables.

6. What does Atie say she sometimes writes?
(a) Prose.
(b) Letters.
(c) Poems.
(d) Articles.

7. What does Atie ask Sophie and her mother to do after the family sees the package?
(a) To fight.
(b) To invite each other.
(c) To reconcile.
(d) To write a letter.

8. Where at her grandmother's house does Sophie drop her suitcase?
(a) In the yard.
(b) On the road.
(c) On the porch.
(d) In the kitchen.

9. What is the driver in the van calling Sophie on her way to La Nouvelle Dame Marie?
(a) Wonderful.
(b) Louise.
(c) Pretty.
(d) Beautiful.

10. In which language does Sophie's mother often speak to the people passing by?
(a) Creole.
(b) Spanish.
(c) English.
(d) French.

11. What do Ifé and Atie argue about at dinner?
(a) About Atie's reading lessons.
(b) About Ifé 's reading lessons.
(c) About Sophie.
(d) About Atie's cooking.

12. Who is the argument between that Sophie and her grandmother witness at the market?
(a) A Macoute and a customer.
(b) A woman and a coal vendor.
(c) A Macoute and a coal vendor.
(d) Two vendors.

13. What does Joseph say when Sophie doesn't answer the question he asks her?
(a) To forget about it.
(b) Whether she loves him.
(c) To sleep on it.
(d) To tell her mother.

14. Where does Sophie notice a statue of Erzulie?
(a) On Atie's dresser.
(b) On Ifé's kitchen table.
(c) On Ifé's dresser.
(d) On Ifé's bed.

15. Where is Sophie's made up boyfriend?
(a) In France.
(b) In the Dominican Republic.
(c) In Mexico.
(d) In Haiti.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Joseph take Sophie when he comes home from touring the first time?

2. What do Atie and Sophie say about Brigitte on the way home?

3. What does Louis want grandmother and Sophie to buy?

4. What time is it when Sophie comes home one night and finds her mother waiting for her?

5. What life form does the woman in the story Sophie heard take on in order to stop bleeding?

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