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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Amabelle jealous of the people her father helped?
(a) They received more of his money than his family did
(b) Her father loved them more than he loved her
(c) He was kinder to those people than to his daughter
(d) They received more of his time than his daughter did

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

3. What does Papi listen to on the radio at night?
(a) Political speeches
(b) News of the Spanish civil war
(c) News of the Dominican war for independence
(d) Spanish music

4. 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 shocked by his lack of concern for others
(d) She is concerned the man might be her father

5. Who does Senora Valencia name her daughter in honor of?
(a) Amabelle
(b) Her grandmother
(c) Her husband
(d) Her mother

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

7. What sound always makes Sebastien homesick?
(a) Sugar cane stalks being cut
(b) Amabelle's voice
(c) Pigeons cooing
(d) Mockingbirds singing

8. What does Dr. Javier do to allow himself to escape Papi?
(a) Claim he needs to go register the children's births
(b) Ask Amabelle for a cup of coffee
(c) Claim he has to attend to another birth
(d) Ask to see the rest of the house

9. What is wrong with Senora Valencia's daughter when she is born?
(a) She is small
(b) The umbilical cord is wrapped around her neck
(c) She cannot open her eyes
(d) She is unable to breathe

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

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

12. What does Amabelle notice about Dona Sabine's home that makes her concerned "another Yanki invasion was coming?"
(a) Military guards at the gate
(b) Felice is now working for Dona Sabine
(c) A wall built around her home to keep the Haitians out
(d) Many more people working for her family than usual

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

14. Which of the following is NOT a piece of advice Amabelle gives Senora Valencia to help ease the pain of childbirth?
(a) Pray to the Virgin Mary for strength
(b) The child will be hers forever once she gives birth to him/her
(c) Breathe freely
(d) The pain will be only a bit more than being stung by a wasp

15. Why does Sebastien tell of his father's death using third person narration?
(a) He is angry at his father for dying
(b) The memory is too painful for him
(c) He was not present when his father died
(d) The memory of his father's death is unclear to him

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Pico name his son after?

2. According to Sebastien, why does Kongo take Joel's body away before others can see him?

3. What is unusual about Beatriz?

4. What does the narrator have recurrent nightmares about?

5. Where is Senora Valencia's house located?

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