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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who says, "He was going to make a good man, that boy. Sharp like a needle point, that boy, he took the university exams a year before everyone else in this area?"
(a) Madan Roger.
(b) The female narrator.
(c) Manman.
(d) The female narrator's father.

4. 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) Because he and the narrator's mother are separated.
(d) So that soldiers do not make him sleep with his daughter.

5. What is the female narrator's father waiting for before they can leave the city?
(a) Soldiers to escort them out.
(b) The gasoline ban to be lifted.
(c) To hear news about the first narrator.
(d) The radio group to disband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What announcement is the second narrator waiting for?

2. What do bright butterflies bring?

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

4. What does the female narrator's father find in her room?

5. How does the story end?

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