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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 167 - 220).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wilma want Esme to do with her baby?
(a) Wilma does not know about Esme's baby.
(b) Have an abortion.
(c) Raise her.
(d) Give her up for adoption.

2. Where does Lala sit with Baby in her arms on the beach for a long while?
(a) At the jet ski rental place.
(b) In the shade of the cave.
(c) In a little black boat on the shore.
(d) At the burger stand.

3. What is an essential part of Adan's story reaching back to childhood?
(a) The story of a Burger Bee snack box on a Friday afternoon.
(b) The story of the army conscription.
(c) The story of his father, the doctor.
(d) The story of melted gold.

4. Who does Adan talk about incessantly and inappropriately following Baby's funeral?
(a) Grayson.
(b) Jacinthe.
(c) Mira.
(d) The Queen of Sheba.

5. Why does Wilma make Esme sleep in the outhouse?
(a) She wants Esme to know how hard it is to be a woman in Barbados.
(b) She worries that Carson will sexually assault Esme.
(c) She has nowhere else to put Esme.
(d) She punishes Esme for extreme insolence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Wilma's relationship to Lala?

2. What happens to the baby in Chapter 6?

3. How does Esme die?

4. Where does Lala keep some of her money she earned from braiding?

5. Who works in Mrs. Kennedy's garden that Lala encounters for a second time in Chapter 21?

(see the answer key)

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