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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sebastien's bracelet made of?
(a) Coffee beans
(b) Goat bones
(c) Sugar cane juice
(d) Sugar cane stalks

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

3. What does the narrator say she played with when she was a child?
(a) Her sisters
(b) Sugar cane stalks
(c) A doll
(d) Her shadow

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

5. What is Amabelle doing when she hears Senora Valencia scream?
(a) Sewing a shirt for Sebastien
(b) Cooking dinner
(c) Sleeping
(d) Sewing a shirt for Senor Pico

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Senora Valencia concerned about having Dr. Javier deliver her baby?

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

3. What is wrong with Senora Valencia's daughter when she is born?

4. What does the narrator say she has never seen Sebastien do?

5. How have Sebastien's hands become scarred?

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