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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Amabelle know how to help Senora Valencia give birth?
(a) She was trained as a midwife in Haiti
(b) She observed Dr. Javier deliver babies
(c) She observed her mother giving birth to her sibilings
(d) She observed her parents who were herb healers deliver babies

2. What details about the babies' births does Dr. Javier ask Amabelle for?
(a) The size of each of the children when they were born
(b) The time of their births
(c) The length of Senora Valencia's labor
(d) The date of their births

3. Why doesn't Senora Valencia name her son immediately?
(a) She wants her father to name him
(b) She is concerned he will not survive
(c) She cannot think of a proper name for him
(d) She wants her husband to name him

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

5. What does Amabelle say she admired most about her mother?
(a) Her tenacity
(b) Her tranquility
(c) Her kindness
(d) Her seriousness

6. Who does Senora Valencia tell Amabelle she had her light a candle for?
(a) Her daughter
(b) Her mother
(c) Her husband
(d) The Virgin Mary

7. What does Pico do as soon as he arrives home?
(a) He rushes to see Valencia and his children
(b) He bathes and changes his clothes
(c) He rushes to see Papi
(d) He asks Amabelle to make him dinner

8. Why are the Haitian immigrant children born in the Dominican Republic not able to attend "proper schools?"
(a) They do not speak Spanish
(b) Their skin color prevents them from being accepted into these schools
(c) They are not Christians. Only Christians can attend the top schools
(d) The government will not give them the papers they need to enroll

9. What emotion does Amabelle see in Luis' face as he watches Pico, Valencia and the babies together?
(a) Sadness
(b) Exhaustion
(c) Anger
(d) Joy

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

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

12. What does Father Romain encourage his congregants to do?
(a) Protect themselves
(b) Educate themselves
(c) Attend church
(d) Remember their homeland

13. 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 he will always protect her
(c) The idea that they died of natural causes many years later
(d) The idea that they are still alive

14. What is unusual about Beatriz?
(a) She visits Senora Valencia even though she is married to Pico
(b) She only speaks Latin to herself
(c) She visits patients with Dr. Javier
(d) She is Dr. Javier's only sister

15. Why does Senora Valencia ask Amabelle to light a candle after the babies are born?
(a) To alert her husband that the babies have arrived
(b) It is now night
(c) To be able to see the children better
(d) To honor the Virgin Mary

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Papi ask Amabelle to take him to see?

2. What prompted Sebastien to leave Haiti?

3. What does Amabelle say she does more than her mother did?

4. What does the narrator have recurrent nightmares about?

5. How did Amabelle come to work for Senora Valencia's family?

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