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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 is Atie like, according to Ifé?
(a) Atie is like an angel.
(b) Atie is like a devil.
(c) Atie is dumb.
(d) Atie is like a maker.

2. What does the new supper guest bring as a gift?
(a) A pig.
(b) A goat.
(c) Chocolates.
(d) Flowers.

3. What is Louise selling on the side of the road?
(a) Cola.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Fish.
(d) Coffee.

4. Where does Sophie's mother live?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) The Bronx.

5. Why does Atie need to go to the market?
(a) To get a remedy for her cold.
(b) To get a remedy for the lump on her back.
(c) To get a remedy for Ifé's lump .
(d) To get a remedy for the lump in her calf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sophie see on the drive out of Croix-des-Rosets?

2. How long does Joseph stay in Providence after the incident between Sophie and her mother?

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

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

5. How does Sophie feel after she has her baby?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has changed in Sophie's life when the third book opens with Chapter 13?

2. Why does Sophie's mother not look happy to be home?

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

4. What story does Sophie think about when she goes to bed with a pestle?

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

6. Why do Sophie's mother and grandmother go to the notary together?

7. In Book 3, Chapter 26, Sophie overhears her mother and grandmother talking. What are they talking about and what happens after the conversation?

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

9. Sophie asks her grandmother why mothers test their children. What does her grandmother answer?

10. What happens at the market when Sophie and her grandmother go there in Chapter 17?

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