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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Amabelle usher Senora Valencia back into the house as the soldiers arrive in the valley?
(a) Amabelle fears for Senora Valencia's safety
(b) Amabelle does not want the soldiers to take her away from Senora Valencia
(c) Senora Valencia becomes hysterical
(d) Senora Valencia has begun bleeding

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

3. Who is Senora Valencia concerned that her daughter will be mistaken for?
(a) A much younger child
(b) A field worker's child
(c) Someone who is black
(d) Her brother

4. What do the people in the clinic share stories of?
(a) Their former lives in the Dominican Republic
(b) The slaughter of Haitian immigrants that they witnessed
(c) The happier times in the past
(d) The deaths of their parents

5. What is the "farming of the bones"?
(a) Burying the dead
(b) Milling sugar
(c) Sugar cane harvesting
(d) Coffee harvesting

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator have recurrent nightmares about?

2. Why does Senora Valencia ask Pico to bring Amabelle to her the evening after the birth of her children?

3. Which of the following is NOT a detail Juana tells Senora Valencia about her mother?

4. What information does Yves give Amabelle that makes her hopeful Sebastien and Mimi were able to cross the river?

5. What does the narrator say she played with when she was a child?

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