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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Senor Pico nearly kill as he practices shooting with Senora Valencia?
(a) Amabelle
(b) Papi
(c) Dr. Javier
(d) Rosalinda

2. According to a nun at the clinic, who has been asking about Amabelle?
(a) Juana
(b) Sebastien
(c) Yves
(d) Dr. Javier

3. Who is named official godfather of many of the children being baptized at the same time as Rosalinda?
(a) The Generalissimo
(b) God
(c) Senor Pico
(d) Dr. Javier

4. What sight in the deserted village does Yves conceal from the others?
(a) The buckets of water
(b) The hanging bodies of the villagers
(c) The large stores of food
(d) The papers of Haitian traders

5. How does the Generalissimo plan to compensate the injured and dead Haitians?
(a) With small monetary payments
(b) By allowing those alive to re-enter the country
(c) By providing them with land to farm on
(d) He refuses to compensate them because he does not believe he is responsible.

6. Who offers to bless Amabelle and Sebastien's marriage?
(a) Father Vargas
(b) Kongo
(c) Papi
(d) Senora Valencia

7. How does Senora Valencia first react when Amabelle comes to visit her?
(a) She is relieved that Amabelle is still alive
(b) She breaks down into tears at the sight of her old friend
(c) She is too old and disoriented to remember Amabelle
(d) She refuses to believe she is Amabelle

8. How has Father Romain changed since Amabelle last saw him?
(a) He is now angry and frustrated
(b) He is now disoriented and sickly
(c) He is now at peace
(d) He is now insane

9. What do the people in the clinic share stories of?
(a) The slaughter of Haitian immigrants that they witnessed
(b) The happier times in the past
(c) The deaths of their parents
(d) Their former lives in the Dominican Republic

10. When Amabelle and Yves come upon an oxen cart stuck in the mud, what do they notice the cart is filled with?
(a) Vegetables
(b) Bodies
(c) Weapons
(d) Soldiers

11. Who stays with Rafi's body during the night after the wake?
(a) Juana
(b) Senora Valencia
(c) Amabelle
(d) Senor Pico

12. Why does Amabelle have difficulty finding the stream and cave when she visits Alegria?
(a) She is disoriented by the changes in the town
(b) She cannot remember where they are located
(c) She stream has dried up because of a drought
(d) She cannot find a guide to take her there

13. Where does Amabelle ask the truck driver to leave her?
(a) Near the guardhouse at the border
(b) Near the waterfall
(c) At the spot where Sebastien was killed
(d) At Senora Valencia's home

14. What information does Yves give Amabelle that makes her hopeful Sebastien and Mimi were able to cross the river?
(a) Many people are crossing the river everyday now
(b) Yves has left directions for them at each stop on the river
(c) The massacre of Haitians by the Dominicans has stopped
(d) The water level in the river has dropped

15. What lead to Yves' father's death?
(a) Eating rich food after starving in prison
(b) Food poisoning
(c) The brutality of the cane harvest
(d) Beatings in prison

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a woman in Cap Haitian give Amabelle to help ease her pain?

2. What does Juana prepare in honor of Rosalinda's baptism?

3. Who does Papi go to visit when he takes a walk to escape Senor Pico?

4. Where does Man Denise leave for?

5. How does being called "Man Amabelle" effect Amabelle?

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