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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Senora Valencia ask Juana to do to soothe her into sleep?
(a) Stroke her hand
(b) Tell her stories of her mother
(c) Tell her stories of Haiti
(d) Place the baby girl in bed with her

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

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

4. What strikes Amabelle as she witnesses a woman having her leg amputated?
(a) The doctor's hand
(b) The woman's leg
(c) A drop of her own blood
(d) A drop of the woman's blood

5. Why does Amabelle lie naked on the floor in Chapter 17?
(a) She wants to sweat out all of her moisture so she cannot cry
(b) She is sick and cannot move
(c) Sebastien asks her to take off her uniform
(d) She wants to feel the coolness of the earth

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Amabelle promise Sebastien she will visit?

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

3. What shape did Amabelle's father always make her Christmas lanterns?

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

5. Which of the following is NOT a memory Amabelle has as she is walking down the trail with the other immigrants?

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