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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ifé answer when Sophie asks why mothers test their children?
(a) That a mother is supposed to hurt her daughter.
(b) That a mother is obliged to do it by her husband.
(c) Thet a mother is responsible for her daughter's purity.
(d) That she never tested her children.

2. Why does Atie think she was a fool, while she is standing in her room talking to Sophie?
(a) Because Atie thought Louise was not her friend.
(b) Because Atie thought Louise was her friend.
(c) Because Atie thought Louise was married.
(d) Because Atie thought Louise was going to stay near her forever.

3. Where do Martine and Ifé go the day after Martine arrives?
(a) To the bakery.
(b) To the notery.
(c) To the doctor.
(d) To the market.

4. What does Sophie tell her therapist when she goes back to see her?
(a) That she is worried about her appetite.
(b) That she is worried about her mother.
(c) That she is worried about her daughter.
(d) That she is worried about her health.

5. After skipping dinner one night, she joins in again. What does Atie do after that dinner?
(a) She goes out with Louise.
(b) She goes for her reading lesson.
(c) She does the dishes.
(d) She goes for her music lesson.

6. Why does Sophie's therapist scold her the first time she goes back to her?
(a) For not showing up for weeks.
(b) For showing up today.
(c) For disappearing so suddenly.
(d) For going to Haiti.

7. What does Sophie do when her mother arrives for a visit?
(a) She runs away.
(b) She stands on the porch.
(c) She hugs her mother.
(d) She yells at her mother.

8. Which word does Brigitte learn to say when Sophie gets home from her meeting?
(a) "Dada."
(b) "Papa."
(c) "Gaga."
(d) "Mama."

9. What joke does Ifé make about Eliab?
(a) That Eliab wants to marry Atie.
(b) That Eliab wants to marry her.
(c) That Eliab wants to marry Sophie.
(d) That Eliab is her son.

10. What does Sophie need for her relationship with Joseph to work out?
(a) She needs an aphrodisiac.
(b) She needs understanding.
(c) She needs to eat more food.
(d) She needs another child.

11. What does the therapist say Sophie's mother should do?
(a) She should see someone.
(b) She should talk to her husband.
(c) She should talk to Sophie.
(d) She should go back to the place of the rape.

12. What did the stories of Martine and Atie's father do to them?
(a) They made them sad.
(b) They made them happy.
(c) They made them afraid.
(d) They made them weak.

13. Why is Atie upset after Louise sells the pig?
(a) Because Louise didn't want to take Ifé's money.
(b) Because Louise took Ifé's money and left the valley.
(c) Because Louise took Ifé's money and went home.
(d) Because Louise yelled at Atie.

14. Why does Sophie leave Joseph?
(a) Because they were not in love anymore.
(b) Because they were connecting physically.
(c) Because they were not connecting physically.
(d) Because they hated each other.

15. What do the two sisters talk about after Atie decides not to go to Louise's house?
(a) About their relationship with their children.
(b) About their relationship with men.
(c) About their relationship with their parents.
(d) About their relationship with each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of group does Sophie attend in hopes of solving her problems?

2. What does Martine tell Sophie after she arrives from the United States?

3. Who is asleep when the family arrives back in New York?

4. Where is Atie when Martine and Ifé come back from their errand?

5. What would Sophie do whenever her mother "tested" her?

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