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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a piece of advice Amabelle gives Senora Valencia to help ease the pain of childbirth?
(a) The pain will be only a bit more than being stung by a wasp
(b) Pray to the Virgin Mary for strength
(c) The child will be hers forever once she gives birth to him/her
(d) Breathe freely

2. What thought does Sebastien suggest Amabelle replace the memory of her parents' deaths with?
(a) The idea that they will be reunited in the afterlife
(b) The idea that they died of natural causes many years later
(c) The idea that he will always protect her
(d) The idea that they are still alive

3. What prompted Sebastien to leave Haiti?
(a) A hurricane that destroyed his family's property and killed his father
(b) The war between Haiti and the Dominican Republic
(c) A tornado that destroyed his family's property and killed his father
(d) He wanted to marry Amabelle

4. What is the "farming of the bones"?
(a) Sugar cane harvesting
(b) Burying the dead
(c) Milling sugar
(d) Coffee harvesting

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator's father caution her against playing with her shadow?

2. Senora Valencia's last statement to Amabelle can be seen as an example of...

3. What plant did the Haitian immigrants use to bathe with?

4. Why does Sebastien tell of his father's death using third person narration?

5. Who stays with Senora Valencia the night after the children are born?

(see the answer key)

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