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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Senora Valencia name her daughter in honor of?
(a) Her grandmother
(b) Amabelle
(c) Her mother
(d) Her husband

2. What does Amabelle notice pinned to Dr. Javier's shirt collar?
(a) A wood carving created by Sebastien
(b) A wooden cross
(c) A wood carving like those worn by the cane cutters
(d) A pin like one her mother had

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

4. How have Sebastien's hands become scarred?
(a) Escaping from the Dominican Republic
(b) Building his home
(c) Cutting sugar cane stalks
(d) Working in the sugar factory

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator fear will happen if Sebastien leaves her alone?

2. What prompted Sebastien to leave Haiti?

3. Who does Juana insist Papi take with him when he goes to notify Pico of the children's births?

4. How long has Sebastien been working as sugar cane worker?

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

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