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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What leads the narrator to believe her boyfriend is dead?
(a) The banyan tree dies.
(b) She hears a radio broadcast saying a boat has sunk.
(c) A soldier comes and tells her family.
(d) Her father tells her.

4. Who used to be a gardener?
(a) Madan Roger.
(b) The narrator's father.
(c) Manman.
(d) The narrator's boyfriend.

5. What does the female narrator see as they drive to ville rose?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Dogs licking dead faces.
(c) A soldier shaving a woman's head.
(d) Both of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened at the airport?

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

3. 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?"

4. What constantly surrounds the female narrator near the end of the story?

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"?

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