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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 do when she sees the black butterfly?
(a) Catches it in a net.
(b) She runs away so it won't land on her.
(c) Tries to kill it.
(d) Reaches out her hand for it.

2. Where is the female narrator's family headed?
(a) Port au Prince.
(b) The Bahamas.
(c) Ville Rose.
(d) Miami.

3. Why does the female narrator tell her father that she loves her boyfriend?
(a) Because she wants her father's permission to marry him.
(b) Because he thinks it will make him happy.
(c) Because she wants him to know she loved someone other than her parents.
(d) Because she already married him.

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who is the female narrator referring to in this sentence, "I wish he would catch a bullet so we could see how scared he really is"?
(a) Manman.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her boyfriend.
(d) Her Uncle.

10. What is the female narrator referring to in this sentence, "And when we see each other again, it will seem like we lost no time?"
(a) Their reunion in death.
(b) The idea that if they keep writing one another it will seem like they were never apart.
(c) Recording tapes to each other so they can send them in the mail.
(d) Their reunion in Miami.

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

12. What is the gender of the second narrator?
(a) Female.
(b) Male.
(c) It does not say.
(d) There is no narrator.

13. How old is Madan Roger?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) It does not say.
(d) Fifty.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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

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

4. 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"?

5. What does the female narrator see as they drive to ville rose?

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