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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has Amabelle worked for Senora Valencia's family?
(a) Her entire life
(b) Since Sebastien came to the farm
(c) 1 year
(d) Since she was a child

2. Who stays with Senora Valencia the night after the children are born?
(a) Pico
(b) Juana
(c) Amabelle
(d) One of Pico's female cousins

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

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

5. What alerts Amabelle that the baby will be born before Dr. Javier arrives?
(a) Senora Valencia begins bleeding
(b) She sees the umbilical cord in the birth canal
(c) Senora Valencia's contractions grow stronger
(d) She sees the child's head in the birth canal

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

7. What is Sebastien's bracelet made of?
(a) Sugar cane juice
(b) Sugar cane stalks
(c) Goat bones
(d) Coffee beans

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

9. What position does Pico hope to hold one day?
(a) Army commander
(b) General in the army
(c) President of the Dominican Republic
(d) President of Haiti

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

11. Where are Senora Valencia's ancestors from?
(a) Portugal
(b) Mexico
(c) Haiti
(d) Spain

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

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

14. How did Senora Valencia's mother die?
(a) During a hurricane
(b) Cancer
(c) Of old age
(d) In childbirth

15. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways the narrator characterizes Sebastien?
(a) Handsome
(b) Moody
(c) Gentle
(d) Strong

Short Answer Questions

1. Senora Valencia's last statement to Amabelle can be seen as an example of...

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

3. What does Papi raise as his hobby?

4. What does Amabelle notice pinned to Dr. Javier's shirt collar?

5. Where is this first part of the novel set?

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