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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What promise does the female narrator reaffirm?
(a) To marry someone that can take care of her.
(b) To keep writing, and he will keep writing as well.
(c) To obey her father no matter what.
(d) To avenge her lover's death.

2. 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) The male narrator.
(b) Neither.
(c) Both.
(d) The female narrator.

3. Why doesn't the female narrator's father approve of her boyfriend?
(a) They do not have the same political views.
(b) He thinks the young man is not smart.
(c) He wants someone who can provide her with more.
(d) He is racist.

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

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

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

7. What is the setting the second narrator is in?
(a) Miami.
(b) A boat at sea.
(c) Haiti.
(d) The Bahamas.

8. 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 Uncle.
(d) Her boyfriend.

9. 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) Recording tapes to each other so they can send them in the mail.
(b) Their reunion in Miami.
(c) Their reunion in death.
(d) The idea that if they keep writing one another it will seem like they were never apart.

10. 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) Madan Roger.
(c) Manman.
(d) The narrator's father.

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

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

13. What kind of man does the female narrator's father want her to marry?
(a) One who can give her more than she has now.
(b) Someone like the first narrator.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Someone like her cousin.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Madan Roger?

3. What does the narrator say lies beyond the mountains?

4. What sacrifice does the female narrator's father make for her?

5. Fill in the blanks. "Sometimes you have to choose between _________ and _________."

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