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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Amabelle's father move her away from her mother's cooking pot when she was a child?
(a) He wants her to remain a child and not grow up too quickly
(b) He does not want her to become a domestic worker
(c) He is concerned she will burn herself
(d) He knows it will anger her mother to see her tampering with the food

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

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

4. Why does Sebastien insist on remaining in the dark while with the narrator?
(a) He wants her to know only his voice
(b) He is embarrassed by the scars on his hands and face
(c) He doesn't want the neighbors to know he is there
(d) He wants her to learn to trust him even when she cannot see him

5. Why is Senora Valencia concerned about having Dr. Javier deliver her baby?
(a) She does not want a man present when the children are born
(b) She does not want him to see her completely naked
(c) She does not want him to see her in pain
(d) She does not have confidence in his ability to deliver babies

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

7. What does Amabelle wish she could remember from her past when she is helping Senora Valencia give birth?
(a) Her own birth
(b) The process of delivering a baby
(c) Her mother's advice
(d) Herbal pain remedies her parents used

8. What is the "farming of the bones"?
(a) Milling sugar
(b) Burying the dead
(c) Coffee harvesting
(d) Sugar cane harvesting

9. What does the narrator have recurrent nightmares about?
(a) Sebastien dying
(b) Sebastien leaving her
(c) Her parents abandoning her
(d) Her parents drowning

10. According to Sebastien, why does Kongo take Joel's body away before others can see him?
(a) He wishes to be left alone with his son
(b) He doesn't want to draw attention to his son's death
(c) He wants to take him to a sacred burial place
(d) He doesn't want Senor Pico to punish him for burying his son

11. Who does Papi ask Amabelle to take him to see?
(a) Kongo
(b) Sebastien
(c) Don Gilbert
(d) Don Carlos

12. What does Amabelle notice pinned to Dr. Javier's shirt collar?
(a) A pin like one her mother had
(b) A wood carving created by Sebastien
(c) A wood carving like those worn by the cane cutters
(d) A wooden cross

13. What thought does Sebastien suggest Amabelle replace the memory of her parents' deaths with?
(a) The idea that they died of natural causes many years later
(b) The idea that they are still alive
(c) The idea that he will always protect her
(d) The idea that they will be reunited in the afterlife

14. Why is Amabelle concerned about leaving Senora Valencia alone during childbirth?
(a) She doesn't want Senora to feel lonely
(b) She is afraid Papi will become angry with her
(c) She doesn't want her to have to push the baby out alone
(d) She is concerned Senora will die

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Senora Valencia ask Amabelle to light a candle after the babies are born?

2. Why did Kongo disapprove of Joel and Felice's relationship?

3. What does Father Romain encourage his congregants to do?

4. What does Amabelle say she admired most about her mother?

5. Who does the narrator believe is the only person who truly knows her?

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