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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eliab buy at the market when Sophie sends him there?
(a) Milk and a mango.
(b) Milk.
(c) A mango.
(d) Vegetables.

2. When does Sophie see the light go out that she and her grandmother watch during supper?
(a) The light never goes out.
(b) At midnight.
(c) Two hours later.
(d) About an hour later.

3. How does Sophie's therapist describe Sophie's mother going on in life the way she is?
(a) Good idea.
(b) Healthy.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Crazy.

4. What does Atie do after the meal with the guest?
(a) She reads a love poem.
(b) She reads a book.
(c) She ties a pig to a pole in the yard.
(d) She reads a love letter.

5. What does Sophie tell Joseph the night they watch a movie about two lovers?
(a) She says her mother is pretentious.
(b) She says her mother is sad.
(c) She says her mother is sick.
(d) She says her mother is pregnant.

6. Where is Sophie's mother buried?
(a) In Haiti.
(b) In the United States.
(c) In France.
(d) In the Dominican Republic.

7. What does Sophie answer when her therapist asks her if she ever hated her mother?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) It was not hate.
(c) Every day.
(d) Not ever.

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

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

10. Who makes dinner the night Atie comes back home?
(a) Sophie.
(b) Atie.
(c) Grandme.
(d) Louise.

11. What does Atie do instead of going to Louise's house?
(a) She sits on the porch with Ifé.
(b) She sits on the porch with Martine.
(c) She sits on the porch with Sophie.
(d) She sits on the porch with Louise.

12. What does Sophie's mother lend Sophie when she leaves?
(a) Her watch.
(b) Her apartment.
(c) Her car.
(d) Her bicycle.

13. What does Sophie talk about to her therapist after she scolds her?
(a) About her husband.
(b) About her health.
(c) About her trip.
(d) About her weekend.

14. What does Sophie saying her mother is pregnant bring back to her?
(a) It brings back loving memories.
(b) It brings back her nightmares of her ex-husband.
(c) It brings back her nightmares of the rape.
(d) It brings back memories of Sophie's birth.

15. Why is Sophie's mother afraid being back at home?
(a) Because she doesn't like New York.
(b) Because she doesn't want to be with Marc anymore.
(c) Because Sophie is pregnant.
(d) Because she is pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sophie hope when she looks back at her daughter sleeping in the back seat?

2. Where does Sophie stop after her second appointment with her therapist?

3. What does Sophie find when she gets home after visiting her mother the evening of the singing?

4. Where does Sophie sit the morning after Dessalines is killed?

5. Why does Sophie leave Joseph?

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