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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 33-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Amabelle often sleep when she was a young girl?
(a) Outside of Senora Valencia's room
(b) In a room with Juana, the housemaid
(c) With Senora Valencia in her canopy bed
(d) On a cot in Senora Valencia's room

2. Which of the following is NOT a part of the Dominican coat of arms?
(a) Fraternity
(b) Liberty
(c) God
(d) Country

3. Where is this first part of the novel set?
(a) In Cuba
(b) In Mexico
(c) In the Dominican Republic
(d) In Haiti

4. Who does Dona Sabine and Don Gilbert hide in their home?
(a) Senora Valencia
(b) Haitian immigrants
(c) Rosalinda
(d) The Generalissimo's soldiers

5. What does Senora Valencia ask Juana to do to soothe her into sleep?
(a) Stroke her hand
(b) Place the baby girl in bed with her
(c) Tell her stories of her mother
(d) Tell her stories of Haiti

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Amabelle say she admired most about her mother?

2. Why does Sebastien insist he and Amabelle talk if they are not touching?

3. What should have been a warning to Amabelle's father that it was too dangerous to cross the river?

4. Why did Amabelle's father move her away from her mother's cooking pot when she was a child?

5. What news does Man Denise tell Amabelle several refugees have come to tell her of?

(see the answer key)

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