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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

6. What constantly surrounds the female narrator near the end of the story?
(a) Rain.
(b) The arms of the banyan tree.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Black butterflies.

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

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

9. Who was coming to arrest the female narrator?
(a) None of the above.
(b) The youth federation.
(c) Radio Six.
(d) Soldiers.

10. What does the narrator's father do the day the family leaves the city?
(a) Burns their house down.
(b) Checks on Madan Roger.
(c) Apologizes to the female narrator.
(d) Kills a soldier.

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

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

13. Who says, "He cannot protect us. Only God can protect us?"
(a) The narrator.
(b) Manman.
(c) The male narrator.
(d) Madan Roger.

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

15. What does the female narrator say about hail?
(a) It fall like angry tears from heaven.
(b) It is calming.
(c) It falls like golf balls from the sky.
(d) It is annoying.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were students shot outside the Fort Dimanche Prison?

2. What does the female narrator say has become her "most trusted friend?"

3. 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"?

4. What does the female narrator throw rocks at?

5. Who says, "People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us?"

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