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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Sophie get up early in the morning in Chapter 16?
(a) To watch the sun rise.
(b) To eat an early breakfast.
(c) To watch the village.
(d) To bathe.

3. When was the picture taken of Sophie and Joseph that Sophie looks at?
(a) On the day Sophie left.
(b) On their wedding day.
(c) When they first met.
(d) Before their wedding day.

4. Why has Sophie's mother not met Brigitte yet?
(a) Because Sophie and her mother don't talk.
(b) Because Sophie doesn't have a mother anymore.
(c) Because Sophie and her mother don't like each other.
(d) Because Sophie and her mother live far away from each other.

5. How does Sophie's grandmother look during the visit?
(a) Happy.
(b) Pretty.
(c) Teary-eyed.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long do Sophie and her aunt sit in a van on their way to Sophie's grandmother?

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

3. What do Sophie and her grandmother buy at the market?

4. Where does Sophie bathe in Chapter 16?

5. Where does Tante Atie sit with Brigitte on her lap?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Atie and her sister Martine do in Port-au-Prince when they were young?

2. Sophie falls in love with Joseph when she is eighteen. Who is Joseph and how does she fall in love with him?

3. Sophie and Atie have a conversation on the steps when Atie comes home one night. What does Atie talk about?

4. Dessalines' death gets Sophie thinking about the Macoutes. What does she think about the Macoutes and how is that related to her mother?

5. What happens during the week before Sophie leaves to see her mother?

6. What does Atie do instead of going to Louise's house one night now that Sophie's mother is in town?

7. What happens in Chapter 14 when Sophie and her aunt Atie walk home after Sophie arrives with a van?

8. The night of the conversation between Sophie and her grandmother, Sophie's grandmother tells a story to a group of neighborhood boys. What is this story about?

9. One night Sophie's grandmother cooks beans and she and Sophie have a conversation about Sophie's husband. What do they talk about?

10. Who is the cassette from that the family receives and what does the person on the cassette say?

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