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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does the female narrator's mother talk to her?
(a) Under the banyan tree.
(b) In the house.
(c) In the car.
(d) At the dinner table.

3. Who said, "Oh yes, you can let them kill somebody because you are afraid. They are the law. It is their right?"
(a) Madan Roger.
(b) The narrator's father.
(c) The female narrator.
(d) The narrator's mother.

4. What does the female narrator's mother purchase for herself and her daughter?
(a) Gasoline.
(b) Food.
(c) Black cloth to wrap around their heads.
(d) Straw hats.

5. What does the female narrator say has become her "most trusted friend?"
(a) Manman.
(b) The banyan tree.
(c) Butterflies.
(d) Her journal.

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

7. Who says, "You cannot just let them kill her?"
(a) Manman.
(b) Madan Roger.
(c) The female narrator's father.
(d) The female narrator.

8. Who says, "it had happened before all over this country and tonight it will happen again and there is nothing we can do?"
(a) Manman.
(b) The female narrator.
(c) Madan Roger.
(d) The narrator's father.

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

10. Where do the Haitian people gather to meet the president?
(a) The president's house.
(b) The airport.
(c) The capitol.
(d) The port.

11. Why does the female narrator thank her father?
(a) Because he gave her permission to marry her boyfriend.
(b) Because he protected her from black butterflies.
(c) Because he saved her life.
(d) Because he planted the banyan tree.

12. What were the soldiers asking Madan Roger?
(a) Why she was unhappy.
(b) Where the male narrator was.
(c) Whether she was planning to kill the president.
(d) Whether she was a member of the youth federation her son belonged to.

13. What does the female narrator say her father moves like when she thanks him?
(a) A bear.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A butterfly.
(d) A true father.

14. Why does the female narrator think her boyfriend might be dead?
(a) She can't feel his soul any longer.
(b) His notebook washed up on shore.
(c) It rains constantly.
(d) She heard news of a boat sinking.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the female narrator's father prevent the her arrest?

2. Who says, "He was going to make a good man, that boy. Sharp like a needle point, that boy, he took the university exams a year before everyone else in this area?"

3. Why aren't Manman and the narrator's father speaking to one another?

4. How long does the female narrator say banyan trees last?

5. Who says, "Behind these mountains are more mountains and more black butterflies still and a sea that is endless like my love for you?"

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