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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What items does the second narrator's father want her to throw away?
(a) Her notebook.
(b) Her schoolbooks.
(c) Tapes of her boyfriend's radio show.
(d) Her makeup.

2. What do both of the narrators refer to their love as?
(a) Eternal.
(b) Limited.
(c) Celestial.
(d) Endless.

3. 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.

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

5. What does the female narrator say about hail?
(a) It is annoying.
(b) It is calming.
(c) It fall like angry tears from heaven.
(d) It falls like golf balls from the sky.

6. How does the female narrator's father prevent the her arrest?
(a) He proves her innocence.
(b) He shoots at them.
(c) He talks them out of it.
(d) He pays the soldiers off.

7. Which of these statements is true?
(a) Madan Roger kills soldiers to avenge her son's death.
(b) Madan Roger carries her son's body all the way home.
(c) The narrator's family saves Madan Roger from the soldiers.
(d) Madan Roger only brings her son's head home.

8. What do bright butterflies bring?
(a) Sad news.
(b) Death.
(c) Hope.
(d) Happy news.

9. Who was coming to arrest the female narrator?
(a) The youth federation.
(b) Radio Six.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Soldiers.

10. Why was the female narrator almost arrested?
(a) She is a criminal.
(b) They thought she was a member of the youth federation.
(c) She murdered Madan Roger.
(d) None of the above.

11. Why doesn't the female narrator's father approve of her boyfriend?
(a) He thinks the young man is not smart.
(b) He wants someone who can provide her with more.
(c) They do not have the same political views.
(d) He is racist.

12. Why doesn't the female narrator bathe during the day?
(a) Because it is too cold.
(b) Because people might see her.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Because she likes to bathe beneath the stars.

13. What does the female narrator hear over the radio at the end of the story?
(a) A boat was intercepted by the coast guard.
(b) A boat sank off the coast of the Bahamas.
(c) The new president is back.
(d) Her boyfriend's voice.

14. Why does the female narrator think she will not marry a well-established man?
(a) They do not speak Creole.
(b) They are not very well known in society.
(c) Her father will not let her.
(d) They are very poor.

15. Why can't the female narrator's family get out of the city?
(a) The narrator refuses to leave until she hears from her boyfriend.
(b) There is a ban on gasoline.
(c) Her father doesn't want to leave.
(d) THey have no car.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the butterflies land to bring news?

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

3. Who said, "If only i knew some good wanga magic, I would wipe them off the face of the earth?"

4. Who is the female narrator referring to in this sentence, "At the morgue, they say a car ran over him and took the head off his body?"

5. What does the female narrator say seems to hurt her father's feelings?

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