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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the female narrator see as they drive to ville rose?
(a) Dogs licking dead faces.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) A soldier shaving a woman's head.

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

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

5. What sacrifice does the female narrator's father make for her?
(a) He gives his life for her.
(b) He kills a soldier that is attacking her.
(c) None of the above.
(d) He sells his land and gives all his money to prevent her from being arrested.

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

7. 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?"
(a) The female narrator's boyfriend.
(b) Madan Roger's son.
(c) Madan Roger.
(d) The female narrator's father.

8. Who is Madan Roger?
(a) The female narrator's uncle.
(b) The female narrator's mother.
(c) The female narrator's neighbor.
(d) The female narrator's cousin.

9. What did the female narrator's neighbor Madan Roger come home with?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Black butterflies.
(c) Groceries.
(d) Her son's head.

10. Why do the female narrator and her father get into fights so often?
(a) He wants to send her to boarding school.
(b) He is actually her stepfather.
(c) Her father is trying to protect her, and she thnks he is trying to control her too much.
(d) They have different political views.

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

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

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

14. Who says, "You want to kill me too? Go ahead. I don't care anymore. I'm dead already. You have already done the worst to me that you can do. You have killed my soul?"
(a) The female narrator.
(b) The female narrator's father.
(c) Madan Roger.
(d) Manman.

15. How does the story end?
(a) None of these.
(b) The female narrator runs away from her father.
(c) The female narrator goes to Florida.
(d) The lovers reunite.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the female narrator's mother purchase for herself and her daughter?

2. What kind of tree does the second narrator stand underneath?

3. How old is the second narrator?

4. What does the female narrator refer to the soldiers as?

5. What is the female narrator's father waiting for before they can leave the city?

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