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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 is the main hospital in Lala's part of town in Barbados?
(a) Baxter General.
(b) Cook General.
(c) Hades General.
(d) Beach General.

2. What story does Wilma tell Lala in the Prologue?
(a) The story about the troll.
(b) The story about the mermaid.
(c) The story about the one-armed sister.
(d) The story about the fisherman.

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

4. Why does Lala go looking for Adan in Chapter 1?
(a) She has just lost her cat.
(b) She is in labor.
(c) She has cut hersef.
(d) She needs to remind him he is late for work.

5. Where does Mira live most of the year?
(a) Russia.
(b) America.
(c) England.
(d) Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of woman was Wilma in 1963?

2. What does Tone sell on the beach?

3. Who takes Lala's money that she has earned?

4. What is Adan doing when Lala finds him in Chapter 1?

5. What is wrong with the bathrooms in the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mira Whalen sometimes feel she is being punished for?

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

3. Why does Mira repeatedly buy raisins at the store following Peter's death?

4. What is Peter trying to do when the robber kills him?

5. How does Mira Whalen behave for the first five days after the murder of her husband Peter?

6. What lie does Lala tell about where Adan was when Baby "disappeared"?

7. What surprises Sergeant Beckles so much about Wilma's story about Baby?

8. What does Lala like to do on the beach to earn money?

9. What does Sergeant Beckles think about the death of Baby?

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

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