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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What vocation was Juana preparing for when she met Luis?
(a) Nurse
(b) Farmer
(c) Domestic worker
(d) Nun

4. What profession does the narrator hold?
(a) She is a domestic worker
(b) She is a sugar cane harvester
(c) She is a midwife
(d) She is a nurse

5. Who does Sebastien's sister Mimi work for?
(a) Dr. Javier's mother
(b) The Generalissimo
(c) Dr. Javier
(d) Senora Valencia

6. Why did Kongo disapprove of Joel and Felice's relationship?
(a) Her grandfather had stolen a chicken from Kongo
(b) Felice came from a poor family
(c) Her father had stolen a chicken from Kongo
(d) She was not beautiful enough for Joel

7. Who does Dona Sabine gesture to to come into her home?
(a) Kongo
(b) Amabelle
(c) Felice
(d) Unel

8. 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 asks Amabelle to make him dinner
(d) He rushes to see Papi

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

10. What does Beatriz find Papi writing?
(a) His will
(b) A letter to his daughter
(c) A letter to the Generalissimo
(d) His autobiography

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

12. Where does Sebastien work?
(a) In the sugar cane fields
(b) In the same home as the narrator
(c) In the corn fields
(d) In a sugar factory

13. What did Amabelle's mother give her to help her feel better when she was sick with a fever?
(a) Hugs and kisses
(b) Herbal medicine
(c) A doll
(d) A talisman

14. What did Amabelle's family cross the river to buy on the day they were killed?
(a) Vegetables
(b) Healing herbs
(c) A stove
(d) A cooking pot

15. Why is Amabelle so concerned when Luis tells her of Pico hitting a man with his car?
(a) She is concerned the man might be her father
(b) She knows Senora Valencia will be upset
(c) She is concerned the man might be Sebastien
(d) She is shocked by his lack of concern for others

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the cane workers bathe before work?

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

3. Who does Senora Valencia tell Amabelle she had her light a candle for?

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

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

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