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

2. What warning does Dr. Javier bring to Amabelle?
(a) She must leave immediately because Senor Pico is planning to have her killed
(b) All Haitian immigrants are being deported
(c) Sebastien is wanted by the militia
(d) She must leave immediately because Haitian immigrants are being killed

3. Who does Papi ask Amabelle to take him to see?
(a) Kongo
(b) Sebastien
(c) Don Gilbert
(d) Don Carlos

4. What does Amabelle wish she could remember from her past when she is helping Senora Valencia give birth?
(a) The process of delivering a baby
(b) Herbal pain remedies her parents used
(c) Her mother's advice
(d) Her own birth

5. Where is Sebastien when the narrator wakes up?
(a) Asleep next to the narrator
(b)
(c) Working in the sugar cane fields
(d) Making breakfast outside of the hut

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Dona Sabine gesture to to come into her home?

2. How long has Amabelle worked for Senora Valencia's family?

3. Why did Kongo disapprove of Joel and Felice's relationship?

4. Who stays with Rafi's body during the night after the wake?

5. Why does the narrator's father caution her against playing with her shadow?

(see the answer key)

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