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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the person who wakes Mira up in the middle of the night in Chapter 9 ask her for?
(a) Food.
(b) Water.
(c) Comfort and medicine.
(d) To watch a movie.

2. What is Wilma's relationship to Lala?
(a) She is her cousin.
(b) She is her grandmother.
(c) She is her mother.
(d) She is her sister.

3. What does Adan buy Lala when she is pregant even though they are very expensive?
(a) Pineapples.
(b) Diamonds.
(c) Strawberries.
(d) Cherries.

4. 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 punishes Esme for extreme insolence.
(c) She worries that Carson will sexually assault Esme.
(d) She has nowhere else to put Esme.

5. What does Tone wear on a necklace?
(a) A shark's tooth.
(b) A dollar bill.
(c) A silver charm.
(d) A tooth of his own.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Adan's mother?

2. What does Wilma call Lala?

3. What story does Wilma tell Lala in the Prologue?

4. What was Wilma thinking about when Esme rushed into her workshop, all beaten and bloody?

5. Who does Lala always see walking a dog on the beach?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems does Sam have following Peter's death?

2. Whose fault does Adan tell Lala he thinks Peter Whalen's murder is?

3. How does the one-armed sister lose her arm?

4. Why does Wilma send her own daughter Esme away from the house when Esme is a young girl?

5. Why does Lala go out to find Adan in the middle of the night early in Part I?

6. Why does Lala have to leave the hospital with Baby alone?

7. How does the hospital staff treat Lala when she has her baby there?

8. How does Baby die?

9. What is Tone's idea to try to avoid the consequences of Baby's death?

10. Why does Wilma tell Lala the story of the one-armed sister?

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