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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Amabelle stand over Odette's body for a long time?
(a) She is saying the last rites for her friend
(b) She wants to make sure the woman will not come back to life
(c) She cannot say goodbye to her because her death with always be with Amabelle
(d) She is frightened the same will happen to her

2. Who does Senor Pico share cigars and rum with in the garden?
(a) Dr. Javier
(b) Papi
(c) The Generalissimo
(d) Don Gilbert

3. What sound always makes Sebastien homesick?
(a) Pigeons cooing
(b) Amabelle's voice
(c) Sugar cane stalks being cut
(d) Mockingbirds singing

4. What image marks the beginning of the sugar cane harvest?
(a) The smoke from the fires in the harvesters' camp
(b) The smoke from the fires in the fields
(c) The sound of men chopping the cane with machetes
(d) The smoke coming from the sugar cane factory

5. Why did Amabelle's father move her away from her mother's cooking pot when she was a child?
(a) He knows it will anger her mother to see her tampering with the food
(b) He is concerned she will burn herself
(c) He does not want her to become a domestic worker
(d) He wants her to remain a child and not grow up too quickly

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sebastien tell of his father's death using third person narration?

2. Why are the Haitian immigrant children born in the Dominican Republic not able to attend "proper schools?"

3. What does Beatriz find Papi writing?

4. When Sebastien is talking in his sleep, what does he tell Amabelle he wants to do?

5. What does Papi raise as his hobby?

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