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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Amabelle say she does more than her mother did?
(a) Laugh
(b) Work
(c) Smile
(d) Think

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

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

5. Where are Sebastien and Amabelle from originally?
(a) Spain
(b) The northern part of Haiti
(c) The southern part of Haiti
(d) The Dominican Republic

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sebastien work?

2. Why does the narrator prefer her shadow to other children?

3. What is unusual about Beatriz?

4. Who does Pico name his son after?

5. Who is Senora Valencia concerned that her daughter will be mistaken for?

(see the answer key)

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