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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the female narrator say has become her "most trusted friend?"
(a) Manman.
(b) The banyan tree.
(c) Butterflies.
(d) Her journal.

3. Who says, "it had happened before all over this country and tonight it will happen again and there is nothing we can do?"
(a) Manman.
(b) Madan Roger.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) The female narrator.

4. Where do the butterflies land to bring news?
(a) On the female narrator's foot.
(b) On the female narrator's hand.
(c) On the female narrator's arm.
(d) On the female narrator's head.

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

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

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

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

9. What does the female narrator hear over the radio at the end of the story?
(a) A boat sank off the coast of the Bahamas.
(b) The new president is back.
(c) A boat was intercepted by the coast guard.
(d) Her boyfriend's voice.

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

11. What does the narrator say lies beyond the mountains?
(a) The jungle.
(b) The sea.
(c) More mountains.
(d) The beach.

12. 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) In the stream during the day.
(d) Under the banyan tree at noon.

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

14. What is there a lot of in Ville Rose?
(a) Moths.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Wildlife.
(d) Butterflies.

15. Why aren't Manman and the narrator's father speaking to one another?
(a) Because of what happened the night soldiers came to Madan Roger's house.
(b) Because of how he treats the narrator.
(c) It is not proper to speak to one another in public.
(d) They are thinking of divorce.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the female narrator almost arrested?

2. What does the narrators father call the place they are escaping to?

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

4. Who says, "You cannot just let them kill her?"

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

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