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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the female narrator say seems to hurt her father's feelings?
(a) His powerlessness.
(b) The arguments between him and Madan Roger.
(c) His rejection from the army.
(d) She and Manman talking under the banyan tree.

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

4. How does the female narrator bathe herself?
(a) In the stream in the morning.
(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) Under the banyan tree at noon.

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

6. Who says, "Banyan trees are holy and sometimes if we call the gods from beneath them, they will hear our voices clearer?"
(a) The female narrator.
(b) Manman.
(c) Madan Roger.
(d) The narrator's father.

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

8. 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) Manman.
(b) The female narrator's father.
(c) The female narrator.
(d) Madan Roger.

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

10. Who is the female narrator referring to in this passage, "He called me selfish, and he asked if i hadn't seen or heard what was happening to man-crazy whores like me. I shouted that i wasn't a whore. He had no business calling me that"?
(a) Manman.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her boyfriend.
(d) Madan Roger.

11. 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's father.
(b) Madan Roger.
(c) The female narrator.
(d) Manman.

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

13. What do bright butterflies bring?
(a) Happy news.
(b) Sad news.
(c) Hope.
(d) Death.

14. 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.
(b) Madan Roger.
(c) The female narrator's father.
(d) Manman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't the female narrator bathe during the day?

2. 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?"

3. Who says, "I don't know what is going to happen, but I cannot see staying here forever?"

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

5. Who says, "it had happened before all over this country and tonight it will happen again and there is nothing we can do?"

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