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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Yves and Amabelle plan to go when they leave the clinic?
(a) Back to Alegria to look for Sebastien and Mimi
(b) Yves' mother's house
(c) Amabelle's family land
(d) Sebastien's mother's house

2. What do the travelers smell burning when they awake?
(a) Sugar cane
(b) Houses
(c) Wood
(d) Human bodies

3. What does Yves tell Amabelle is missing from the record books of the slaughter being kept by the church?
(a) Information about Sebastien and Mimi
(b) The Generalissimo's name
(c) The torture Yves and Amabelle endured
(d) Information about Odette and Wilmer

4. Why is the man driving the truck able to sneak Amabelle across the border?
(a) The government owes him favors for helping in the revolution
(b) He is a government official
(c) He hides her under his crates of vegetables
(d) He pays off the guards at each checkpoint

5. What does Juana prepare in honor of Rosalinda's baptism?
(a) A feast
(b) A baptismal gown
(c) Decorations
(d) An altar

6. Where do the cane workers and their families gather in the evenings?
(a) At Mercedes' food stand
(b) Around the fire pit in their camp
(c) At the creek
(d) At Sebastien's hut

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

8. What main town do the travelers reach first?
(a) Cap Haitien
(b) Trujillo
(c) Dajabon
(d) Alegria

9. Why do the refugees become angered on the sixteenth day of testimonials?
(a) An official tells them that there is no more money available
(b) An official tells them the Generalissimo does not believe them
(c) They are denied access to government officials
(d) They are being arrested for crimes against the Dominican Republic

10. Where does Amabelle visit that she was afraid of going as a child?
(a) To the top of the citidel
(b) To her family's land
(c) To Sebastien's mother's home
(d) To the river

11. Where did the Generalissimo work as a young man?
(a) In the Dominican army
(b) In a Haitian farm
(c) In the cane fields
(d) In Senora Valencia's home

12. What has happened to Yves' farm over the years since he has returned to Haiti?
(a) It has gone through both prosperous and difficult periods
(b) It has grown and prospered
(c) It has become the number one producer of beans
(d) It failed forcing him to find other work

13. What does Papi spend time doing after his grandson dies?
(a) Listening to Spanish radio channels
(b) Crying incessantly
(c) Watching over his grandson's coffin
(d) Tending to his orchid garden

14. Why does Amabelle usher Senora Valencia back into the house as the soldiers arrive in the valley?
(a) Amabelle fears for Senora Valencia's safety
(b) Amabelle does not want the soldiers to take her away from Senora Valencia
(c) Senora Valencia has begun bleeding
(d) Senora Valencia becomes hysterical

15. Where does Man Denise leave for?
(a) Dajabon
(b) Port au Prince
(c) Cap Haitien
(d) Alegria

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sebastien visit Amabelle now that he is dead?

2. Why does Amabelle lie naked on the floor in Chapter 17?

3. Why does Man Rapadou feed Amabelle pumpkin soup?

4. According to a nun at the clinic, who has been asking about Amabelle?

5. What torture does Tibon escape that many other Haitian immigrants did not?

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