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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What part of the female narrator's body shivers when she thinks of her boyfriend in danger?
(a) Her hair.
(b) Her skin.
(c) Her heart.
(d) Her arms.

4. Why were students shot outside the Fort Dimanche Prison?
(a) None of the above.
(b) They were demonstrating for the bodies of the radio six.
(c) They had weapons and threatened to use them.
(d) They were trying to help the Radio Six escape.

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

6. What is there a lot of in Ville Rose?
(a) Butterflies.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Wildlife.
(d) Moths.

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

8. What does the narrator say lies beyond the mountains?
(a) The jungle.
(b) The sea.
(c) More mountains.
(d) The beach.

9. Who says, "Behind these mountains are more mountains and more black butterflies still and a sea that is endless like my love for you?"
(a) Neither.
(b) The male narrator.
(c) Both.
(d) The female narrator.

10. Why doesn't the second narrator sketch butterflies anymore?
(a) Because Madan Roger told her the black ones bring bad news.
(b) Because her father forbids her to.
(c) She does not say.
(d) Because she doesn't know how.

11. 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 wants him to know she loved someone other than her parents.
(d) Because she already married him.

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

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

14. What does the female narrator's father find in her room?
(a) Her boyfriend's radio tapes.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Guns.
(d) Propaganda.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting the second narrator is in?

2. What does the father do when the female narrator thanks him?

3. Who says, "A banyan could become a forest if it were given a chance?"

4. What kind of man does the female narrator's father want her to marry?

5. What promise does the female narrator reaffirm?

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