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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Senora Valencia surprised when the first baby is born?
(a) The baby's skin color is much darker than her own
(b) It is a girl and she expected to have a boy
(c) It is a boy and she expected to have a girl
(d) She wanted Dr. Javier to deliver the baby

2. Where did Amabelle often sleep when she was a young girl?
(a) In a room with Juana, the housemaid
(b) Outside of Senora Valencia's room
(c) On a cot in Senora Valencia's room
(d) With Senora Valencia in her canopy bed

3. Where is Sebastien when the narrator wakes up?
(a) Asleep next to the narrator
(b) Making breakfast outside of the hut
(c)
(d) Working in the sugar cane fields

4. Where is this first part of the novel set?
(a) In the Dominican Republic
(b) In Cuba
(c) In Haiti
(d) In Mexico

5. Who does Sebastien ask Amabelle about in Chapter 3?
(a) Senora Valencia
(b) Her mother
(c) Her father
(d) Herself

Short Answer Questions

1. What quality does Amabelle tell Sebastien she loved most in her father?

2. Why doesn't Senora Valencia name her son immediately?

3. What sight in the deserted village does Yves conceal from the others?

4. Which of the travelers is killed by the mob in Dajabon?

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

(see the answer key)

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