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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Senora Valencia concerned when she goes into labor?
(a) She is afraid of the pain of childbirth
(b) It is two months before her due date
(c) The doctor may not be able to get there fast enough
(d) Her husband is away

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways the narrator characterizes Sebastien?

3. Why does Sebastien insist that the narrator take off her uniform?

4. How does the girl baby compare to the boy baby?

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

(see the answer key)

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