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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 27-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Sebastien is talking in his sleep, what does he tell Amabelle he wants to do?
(a) Go back to Haiti
(b) Give her a red satin ribbon
(c) Marry her
(d) Fly a kite

3. What quality does Amabelle tell Sebastien she loved most in her father?
(a) His seriousness
(b) His joyfulness
(c) His skill at healing
(d) His playfulness

4. What image marks the beginning of the sugar cane harvest?
(a) The sound of men chopping the cane with machetes
(b) The smoke from the fires in the harvesters' camp
(c) The smoke coming from the sugar cane factory
(d) The smoke from the fires in the fields

5. Why does Sebastien insist on remaining in the dark while with the narrator?
(a) He is embarrassed by the scars on his hands and face
(b) He doesn't want the neighbors to know he is there
(c) He wants her to know only his voice
(d) He wants her to learn to trust him even when she cannot see him

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Doloritas and Amabelle have in common?

2. What torture does Tibon escape that many other Haitian immigrants did not?

3. Who offers to bless Amabelle and Sebastien's marriage?

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

5. What main town do the travelers reach first?

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