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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 Sophie drink when she and Joseph go out in Long Island?
(a) Cappuccino spiked with rum.
(b) Coke spiked with rum.
(c) Cappuccino.
(d) Rum.

2. What does Sophie see on the drive out of Croix-des-Rosets?
(a) Red dust.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Daffodils.
(d) Children playing.

3. What does Sophie drink during the potluck dinner for which Atie has been preparing food all day?
(a) Milk.
(b) Tea.
(c) Juice.
(d) Coffee.

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

5. How old is Sophie when she meets Joseph?
(a) 16 years old.
(b) 19 years old.
(c) 21 years old.
(d) 18 years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Sophie and her grandmother react to Louise at the market?

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

3. Where is the item that arrives for the family the day an outsider joins supper?

4. What does Sophie's mother do after waiting for Sophie to come home?

5. Which number does Atie use to win the lottery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sophie see after she bathes and changes the baby?

2. What happens in when Sophie comes home after talking to her therapist about her mother in Chapter 35?

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

4. Sophie and her grandmother eat their dinner outside in the yard, watching a light move back and forth in the distance. What does this light mean? What happens to it?

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

6. What does Sophie do for herself and for her baby in the morning, in Chapter 16?

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

8. What does Sophie initially talk about with her therapist in Chapter 32?

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

10. What happens at the sexual phobia group Sophie attends in Chapter 31?

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