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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 mother.
(c) Her dog.
(d) Her grandmother.

2. When Sophie gets ready for bed her first night in the United States, what does she hand her mother?
(a) Her pants.
(b) Her dress.
(c) The Mother Day's card.
(d) Her glasses.

3. How old is Joseph when Sophie meets him?
(a) 18 years old.
(b) 30 years old.
(c) 33 years old.
(d) 21 years old.

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

5. What does Atie make for breakfast the day after the potluck?
(a) Pancakes.
(b) Eggs and bacon.
(c) Chocolate pudding.
(d) Cinnamon rice pudding.

6. What is the name of Sophie's daughter?
(a) Brigitte.
(b) Bernadette.
(c) Ingrid.
(d) Beatrix.

7. What poem does Atie read before she leaves the house for the night?
(a) The poem Sophie wrote on a Mother's Day card years earlier.
(b) A poem Sophie wrote for her mother recently.
(c) One of her own poems.
(d) A poem she read in a newspaper.

8. Why does Sophie not want anybody to see her body?
(a) Because it is none of their business.
(b) Because she feels ugly.
(c) Because she has become ashamed of her body .
(d) Because she has become proud of her body.

9. What does Ifé do when a boy wanders into the yard?
(a) Ifé tells the boy a story.
(b) Ifé gives the boy water.
(c) Ifé yells at the boy.
(d) Ifé gives the boy food.

10. What does Joseph ask Sophie when he comes home from touring the second time?
(a) To marry him.
(b) To join him next time.
(c) To go out again.
(d) To meet Sophie's mother.

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

12. Where does Joseph take Sophie when he comes home from touring the first time?
(a) To the Note.
(b) To the Road.
(c) To a bar without a name.
(d) To the Vote.

13. How does Sophie go to the airport?
(a) By foot.
(b) By taxi.
(c) By car.
(d) By bus.

14. What represents Sophie's mother in the poem?
(a) A butterfly.
(b) A saint.
(c) A sunflower.
(d) A daffodil.

15. Where is Louise standing when she shouts Atie's name before picking her up?
(a) On the road.
(b) At the neighbor's house.
(c) In the yard.
(d) In the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sophie keep her own pictures?

2. What does Sophie tell Louise her profession is back home?

3. Why does Sophie join her mother at work the first couple of months?

4. What does Joseph say when Sophie doesn't answer the question he asks her?

5. What has arrived for the family the day an outsider joins for supper?

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