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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Luis characterize the drive from the army base home?
(a) Angering
(b) Too fast
(c) Exhausting
(d) Exciting

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

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

5. Where is Senora Valencia's house located?
(a) In Alegria
(b) In Guatemala
(c) In Alamandia
(d) In Haiti

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

7. Why is it ironic to Juana that Senora Valencia has twins?
(a) Juana always wanted to have twins
(b) Her mother looked like she was having twins when she had Valencia
(c) Her mother always dreamed Valencia would have twins
(d) Twins are a sign of good luck

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

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

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

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

12. Why are the Haitian immigrant children born in the Dominican Republic not able to attend "proper schools?"
(a) They do not speak Spanish
(b) The government will not give them the papers they need to enroll
(c) Their skin color prevents them from being accepted into these schools
(d) They are not Christians. Only Christians can attend the top schools

13. What does the narrator fear will happen if Sebastien leaves her alone?
(a) She will cease to exist
(b) She will be lonely
(c) She will be unable to sleep
(d) She will be attacked

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

15. Where does Papi go when Senora Valencia goes into labor?
(a) To get Senora Valencia's husband
(b) To get Dr. Javier
(c) To help Amabelle
(d) To pray for his daughter's safety

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Amabelle doing when she hears Senora Valencia scream?

2. What does Papi listen to on the radio at night?

3. What does Amabelle say she does more than her mother did?

4. Why does Amabelle become upset when Mimi refers to Beatriz by only her first name?

5. What does the narrator say she played with when she was a child?

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