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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Sophie feel after eating beans for supper?

4. How does Ifé feel after Atie yells at her makers at the kitchen table?

5. How old is Joseph when Sophie meets him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sophie's therapist tell Sophie after she explains her mother's condition?

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

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

4. What happens at Sophie's mother's apartment the weekend that Joseph, Sophie, and Brigitte drive there on the weekend?

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

6. What happens the night Sophie's mother introduces her boyfriend Marc to Sophie and what do they talk about?

7. What happens between Sophie and Joseph when she pulls into their house?

8. Two special events happen during dinner in Chapter 20. Which two events are different than other nights?

9. Before Sophie leaves, Atie wants her to say goodbye to her grandmother, Ifé. How do Sophie and Atie get to the grandmother?

10. What happens the second time Sophie's mother tries to test her and she fails?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Talk about the relationship between Sophie and her mother and how it changes over the course of the book. Compare their relationship through the four books. Do you think both women came to terms with each other? Why do you think that?

Essay Topic 2

Sophie and Joseph's relationship develops over the years. Which changes occur? What causes these changes? Compare their relationship when Sophie is eighteen, when she has a daughter in Haiti, and when she returns to the United States.

Essay Topic 3

Sophie's priorities and personality change over the course of the book. Compare the changes she experiences through the four books.

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