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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do black butterflies bring?
(a) Warnings of death.
(b) It does not say.
(c) Hope.
(d) Happy news.

2. Who says, "You must love him for this, you must"?
(a) Manman.
(b) The narrator's father.
(c) The narrator's boyfriend.
(d) The female narrator.

3. Who said, "If only i knew some good wanga magic, I would wipe them off the face of the earth?"
(a) The second narrator's father.
(b) Madan Roger.
(c) Madan.
(d) The second narrator.

4. What constantly surrounds the female narrator near the end of the story?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Black butterflies.
(c) The arms of the banyan tree.
(d) Rain.

5. Who says, "He cannot protect us. Only God can protect us?"
(a) Madan Roger.
(b) Manman.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The male narrator.

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

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

8. What promise does the female narrator reaffirm?
(a) To avenge her lover's death.
(b) To keep writing, and he will keep writing as well.
(c) To obey her father no matter what.
(d) To marry someone that can take care of her.

9. Why does the female narrator tell her father that she loves her boyfriend?
(a) Because he thinks it will make him happy.
(b) Because she wants her father's permission to marry him.
(c) Because she already married him.
(d) Because she wants him to know she loved someone other than her parents.

10. 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) Her father doesn't want to leave.
(c) There is a ban on gasoline.
(d) THey have no car.

11. Why does the female narrator's father sleep at his brother's house?
(a) It does not say.
(b) So that soldiers do not make him sleep with his daughter.
(c) Because he and the narrator's mother are separated.
(d) To protect his brother's family.

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

13. Who says, "People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us?"
(a) The narrator's father.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Madan Roger.
(d) Manman.

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

15. Who used to be a gardener?
(a) Manman.
(b) The narrator's father.
(c) Madan Roger.
(d) The narrator's boyfriend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the female narrator's neighbor Madan Roger come home with?

2. Where do the butterflies land to bring news?

3. Who said, "Oh yes, you can let them kill somebody because you are afraid. They are the law. It is their right?"

4. What leads the narrator to believe her boyfriend is dead?

5. Why is the second narrator listening for the first narrator's name on the radio?

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