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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Ruth use for avocadoes?
(a) Peppers.
(b) Apples.
(c) Tomatoes.
(d) Pears.

2. What is one manifestation of Michael's mother's grief?
(a) Sometimes, she stops speaking.
(b) She has shaved her head.
(c) She spends money with abandon.
(d) She hangs around graveyards, waiting for something that no one understands.

3. How does the world seem to look at Aisha as a teenager?
(a) As a cautionary tale.
(b) As an exception.
(c) As a criminal.
(d) As a throw-away.

4. How does Michael's brother describe memory?
(a) Memory is the past.
(b) Memory is subjective.
(c) Memory is the muscle sting of now.
(d) Memory is cursed.

5. Why does Michael go to find Francis at Desirea's for the first time in Part II?
(a) Ruth gets sick.
(b) Michael gets sick.
(c) The police come looking for Francis.
(d) There is no food in the house.

6. Where has Aisha recently visited that has resonated with her?
(a) The Vatican.
(b) Her father's birth village in Trinidad.
(c) The Great Wall of China.
(d) Spain.

7. Who owns Desirea's?
(a) Henry.
(b) Dru.
(c) Michael.
(d) Raj.

8. What book does Michael use as a pretense to sit next to Aisha at the library?
(a) The Theban Plays.
(b) Sense and Sensibility.
(c) The War of the Worlds.
(d) The Chronicles of Narnia.

9. What does Aisha mostly read in the library in Part II?
(a) Novels.
(b) Magazines.
(c) Plays.
(d) Chemistry books.

10. What is Aisha's father's first name?
(a) Clarence.
(b) James.
(c) Samuel.
(d) Ben.

11. Where does Michael's friend stay in Part I when the friend comes back to the neighborhood to visit?
(a) Ben's house.
(b) Michael's house.
(c) Samuel's house.
(d) Raj's house.

12. When they are growing up, What do Francis and Michael routinely do against their mother's wishes while she is at work?
(a) Smoke marijuana.
(b) Have friends over the apartment.
(c) Go out and wander the neighborhood.
(d) Order takeout.

13. What does Mrs. Henry do for a living?
(a) She is a pastor of a Pentecostal Church.
(b) She is an accountant.
(c) She is a dance teacher.
(d) She is a psychic.

14. What is Michael's brother's "place in the sky"?
(a) The fire escape.
(b) The plane.
(c) The hydro pole.
(d) The apartment's roof.

15. Where is the new person at Michael's work from?
(a) Toronto.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Mississauga.
(d) The Bronx.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michael put on the windows in Part II because of the heat?

2. Where does Ruth go when she leaves the house on her own at the end of Part II?

3. In Part II, how much time has passed since Francis's death?

4. What does Michael compare his mother's face to in Part II?

5. What religious building does Aisha tell Ruth about seeing?

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