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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is the second narrator?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Nineteen or twenty.

2. Why can't the female narrator's family get out of the city?
(a) The narrator refuses to leave until she hears from her boyfriend.
(b) Her father doesn't want to leave.
(c) There is a ban on gasoline.
(d) THey have no car.

3. Why were students shot outside the Fort Dimanche Prison?
(a) They were demonstrating for the bodies of the radio six.
(b) None of the above.
(c) They had weapons and threatened to use them.
(d) They were trying to help the Radio Six escape.

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

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

6. How does the second narrator pass time in the house?
(a) Knitting.
(b) Killing cockroaches.
(c) Singing songs.
(d) Organizing Radio Six.

7. 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) Madan Roger.
(c) Her boyfriend.
(d) Her father.

8. Who says, "I don't know what is going to happen, but I cannot see staying here forever?"
(a) Manman.
(b) Madan Roger.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) The female narrator.

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

10. Why is the second narrator listening for the first narrator's name on the radio?
(a) To see if the soldiers let him go free.
(b) To see if he is still alive.
(c) To see if he passed the University exams.
(d) To hear his political opinion.

11. 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) The female narrator.
(c) Manman.
(d) Madan Roger.

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

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

14. Who says, "People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us?"
(a) The narrator.
(b) Manman.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) Madan Roger.

15. Who were the soldiers looking for in Madan Roger's house?
(a) The female narrator's boyfriend.
(b) Manman.
(c) Madan Roger's son.
(d) The female narrator.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why doesn't the second narrator sketch butterflies anymore?

4. 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?"

5. How old is Madan Roger?

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