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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the girl baby compare to the boy baby?
(a) She has more hair than he does
(b) She is much smaller than he is
(c) She has much lighter skin than he does
(d) She is much larger than he is

2. 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) Many more people working for her family than usual
(c) Felice is now working for Dona Sabine
(d) A wall built around her home to keep the Haitians out

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

4. What does the narrator say she has never seen Sebastien do?
(a) Work
(b) Laugh
(c) Smile
(d) Cry

5. What quality does Amabelle tell Sebastien she loved most in her father?
(a) His seriousness
(b) His skill at healing
(c) His joyfulness
(d) His playfulness

6. How have Sebastien's hands become scarred?
(a) Escaping from the Dominican Republic
(b) Building his home
(c) Working in the sugar factory
(d) Cutting sugar cane stalks

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

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

9. 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

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

11. Why does Senora Valencia ask Pico to bring Amabelle to her the evening after the birth of her children?
(a) She wants her to bathe the children
(b) She wants to ask her to stay in the house for the night
(c) She wants to ask her for help taking care of the children
(d) She wants to thank her for helping her give birth

12. What should have been a warning to Amabelle's father that it was too dangerous to cross the river?
(a) The levee was eroded
(b) The water was above his head
(c) The river rats were afraid to cross
(d) It had rained earlier that day

13. What image marks the beginning of the sugar cane harvest?
(a) The smoke from the fires in the fields
(b) The smoke coming from the sugar cane factory
(c) The sound of men chopping the cane with machetes
(d) The smoke from the fires in the harvesters' camp

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

15. Where do the cane workers bathe before work?
(a) In their huts
(b) In a communal bathtub
(c) In the stream
(d) In the rain

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Senora Valencia concerned when she goes into labor?

2. How long has Amabelle worked for Senora Valencia's family?

3. What did Amabelle's family cross the river to buy on the day they were killed?

4. Where are Sebastien and Amabelle from originally?

5. Who stays with Senora Valencia the night after the children are born?

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