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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 are the people of Dajabon celebrating?
(a) Their victory over the Haitians
(b) The Dominican independence
(c) Christmas
(d) Generalissimo Trujillo

2. Who is Senora Valencia's husband named after?
(a) The president of the Dominican Republic
(b) The Generalissimo
(c) A leader in the Dominican independence movement
(d) A mountain

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

4. What do Doloritas and Amabelle have in common?
(a) They both lived in Alegria
(b) They are both engaged to Haitian men who are missing
(c) They have both lost their parents
(d) They both worked in the sugar cane fields

5. Which of the travelers is killed by the mob in Dajabon?
(a) Sebastien
(b) Tibon
(c) Odette
(d) Yves

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Amabelle notice about Dona Sabine's home that makes her concerned "another Yanki invasion was coming?"

2. What profession does the narrator hold?

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

4. What does Papi spend time doing after his grandson dies?

5. Which of the following is NOT a piece of advice Amabelle gives Senora Valencia to help ease the pain of childbirth?

(see the answer key)

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