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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is the second narrator?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Nineteen or twenty.
(d) Thirty.

2. Where did the second narrator's family hide when soldiers came to Madan Roger's house?
(a) The bedroom.
(b) The closet.
(c) The latrine.
(d) The woods.

3. What does the female narrator say seems to hurt her father's feelings?
(a) His rejection from the army.
(b) She and Manman talking under the banyan tree.
(c) His powerlessness.
(d) The arguments between him and Madan Roger.

4. How does the second narrator pass time in the house?
(a) Killing cockroaches.
(b) Singing songs.
(c) Organizing Radio Six.
(d) Knitting.

5. Fill in the blanks. "Sometimes you have to choose between _________ and _________."
(a) Your father and the man you love.
(b) Freedom and safety.
(c) Your mother and your father.
(d) Liberty and death.

6. What does the female narrator say the mountains are doing?
(a) Separating her from chaos.
(b) Isolating her in Ville Rose.
(c) Pushing her further away from her lover.
(d) Providing calming scenery.

7. What is the female narrator's father waiting for before they can leave the city?
(a) The gasoline ban to be lifted.
(b) To hear news about the first narrator.
(c) Soldiers to escort them out.
(d) The radio group to disband.

8. Why is the second narrator listening for the first narrator's name on the radio?
(a) To see if he passed the University exams.
(b) To see if he is still alive.
(c) To hear his political opinion.
(d) To see if the soldiers let him go free.

9. What does the female narrator refer to the soldiers as?
(a) The authority.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Jerks.
(d) None of the above.

10. What does the narrator's father do the day the family leaves the city?
(a) Burns their house down.
(b) Checks on Madan Roger.
(c) Kills a soldier.
(d) Apologizes to the female narrator.

11. What announcement is the second narrator waiting for?
(a) A message from her boyfriend.
(b) The university exams.
(c) The arrival of the president.
(d) The end of the gasoline ban.

12. What kind of tree does the second narrator stand underneath?
(a) A Banyan tree.
(b) A palm tree.
(c) A maple tree.
(d) A Magnolia tree.

13. How old is Madan Roger?
(a) Thirty.
(b) It does not say.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Twenty.

14. Who says, "all anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too"?
(a) The female narrator.
(b) The female narrator's father.
(c) Manman.
(d) Madan Roger.

15. Where do the butterflies land to bring news?
(a) On the female narrator's foot.
(b) On the female narrator's head.
(c) On the female narrator's hand.
(d) On the female narrator's arm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who used to be a gardener?

2. Who says, "Banyan trees are holy and sometimes if we call the gods from beneath them, they will hear our voices clearer?"

3. Why does the female narrator thank her father?

4. What sacrifice does the female narrator's father make for her?

5. What do both of the narrators refer to their love as?

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