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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the female narrator's father waiting for before they can leave the city?
(a) To hear news about the first narrator.
(b) Soldiers to escort them out.
(c) The radio group to disband.
(d) The gasoline ban to be lifted.

3. What does the female narrator throw rocks at?
(a) Black butterflies.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Cockroaches.
(d) All butterflies.

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

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

6. Why aren't Manman and the narrator's father speaking to one another?
(a) They are thinking of divorce.
(b) Because of how he treats the narrator.
(c) Because of what happened the night soldiers came to Madan Roger's house.
(d) It is not proper to speak to one another in public.

7. What happened at the airport?
(a) The president was assassinated.
(b) None of the above.
(c) The president came back and regained his power.
(d) They arrested and/or shot people waiting for the president's return.

8. How long does the female narrator say banyan trees last?
(a) Ten years.
(b) One year.
(c) Hundreds of years.
(d) Fifty years.

9. 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?"
(a) The female narrator.
(b) Manman.
(c) Madan Roger.
(d) The female narrator's father.

10. What announcement is the second narrator waiting for?
(a) The end of the gasoline ban.
(b) The arrival of the president.
(c) A message from her boyfriend.
(d) The university exams.

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

12. Who says, "all anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too"?
(a) The female narrator's father.
(b) Madan Roger.
(c) Manman.
(d) The female narrator.

13. How does the female narrator bathe herself?
(a) Under the banyan tree at noon.
(b) In the stream during the day.
(c) By warming water in the sun and waiting until night to bathe under the banyan tree.
(d) In the stream in the morning.

14. What rumor spreads in Haiti?
(a) That the president was assassinated.
(b) That the new president will save the country.
(c) That the president is coming back.
(d) That the president is dead.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?"

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

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

4. Who were the soldiers looking for in Madan Roger's house?

5. Who was coming to arrest the female narrator?

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