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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who picks Sophie up at the airport in the United States?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her sister.

3. Why does Sophie have sex with Joseph on their wedding night?
(a) Because he asks her to.
(b) Because she thinks she might like it.
(c) Because she is drunk.
(d) Because she feels like she owes it to him.

4. How is chagrin treated?
(a) By drinking honey.
(b) With antibiotics.
(c) By drinking a special tea.
(d) By eating a special herb.

5. What does Sophie's mother do after waiting for Sophie to come home?
(a) She tests Sophie.
(b) She kicks Sophie.
(c) She plays a joke on Sophie.
(d) She hits Sophie.

6. What does Grandma Ifé talk about on the way back from the market?
(a) About Brigitte.
(b) About Sophie's recent behavior.
(c) About Atie's recent behavior.
(d) About the village people.

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

8. What does Sophie notice when she sees her grandmother naked outside in the bath shack?
(a) A scar on her grandmother's body.
(b) A hump on her grandmother's body.
(c) A wound on her grandmother's body.
(d) That her grandmother is fat.

9. Where does Sophie retrieve her daughter after noticing the statue of Erzulie?
(a) From Atie's room,
(b) From her own room,
(c) From the kitchen.
(d) From Ifé's room,

10. Why does Atie need to go to the market?
(a) To get a remedy for the lump on her back.
(b) To get a remedy for Ifé's lump .
(c) To get a remedy for her cold.
(d) To get a remedy for the lump in her calf.

11. Why does Sophie join her mother at work the first couple of months?
(a) Because she doesn't want to go to school.
(b) Because school does not start for two months.
(c) Because her mother wants her to work.
(d) Because school doesn't start for five months.

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

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

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

15. When do Sophie and Joseph get married?
(a) One week after they run off.
(b) One month after they run off.
(c) Two months after they run off.
(d) One month after they meet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where at her grandmother's house does Sophie drop her suitcase?

2. How does Sophie feel after she has her baby?

3. Who is the argument between that Sophie and her grandmother witness at the market?

4. Who is the sender of the item that comes for the family?

5. What is the driver in the van calling Sophie on her way to La Nouvelle Dame Marie?

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