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

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

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

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

5. Where is Sophie's made up boyfriend?
(a) In Mexico.
(b) In France.
(c) In Haiti.
(d) In the Dominican Republic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Joseph ask Sophie when he tells her he is leaving forever?

2. What does the new supper guest bring as a gift?

3. Who does Sophie take a picture of?

4. What is Louise selling on the side of the road?

5. What represents Sophie's mother in the poem?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Sophie's room in Brooklyn look like?

3. What does Sophie do the first two months she is living in New York?

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

5. What happens when Sophie and Joseph go to bed after Sophie calls her mom?

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

7. Sophie and her grandmother sit and listen to night sounds one night after dinner. What do they hear?

8. What happens at the house of Sophie's grandmother after she and Atie have an argument about Atie's reading lessons?

9. What happens when Sophie asks Atie if Brigitte can sleep in her room?

10. What happens when an older Sophie first arrives at her grandmother's house?

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