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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator have recurrent nightmares about?
(a) Sebastien dying
(b) Her parents abandoning her
(c) Sebastien leaving her
(d) Her parents drowning

2. Why does Senora Valencia ask Amabelle to light a candle after the babies are born?
(a) To honor the Virgin Mary
(b) To alert her husband that the babies have arrived
(c) To be able to see the children better
(d) It is now night

3. What alerts Amabelle that the baby will be born before Dr. Javier arrives?
(a) Senora Valencia begins bleeding
(b) She sees the child's head in the birth canal
(c) Senora Valencia's contractions grow stronger
(d) She sees the umbilical cord in the birth canal

4. Who is the narrator?
(a) Amabelle
(b) Senor Pico
(c) Sebastien
(d) Senora Valencia

5. Why does the narrator prefer her shadow to other children?
(a) Her shadow makes her feel less lonely than other children
(b) Her shadow cannot talk to her as other children can
(c) Her shadow never refuses to play the games she wants to play
(d) Her shadow cannot leave her alone

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is this first part of the novel set?

2. Why does Sebastien insist on remaining in the dark while with the narrator?

3. What does Amabelle wish she could remember from her past when she is helping Senora Valencia give birth?

4. Where is Sebastien when the narrator wakes up?

5. Who does Senora Valencia name her daughter in honor of?

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