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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. Why does Wilma take Lala to work with her?
(a) She thinks it will be good for Lala to be around her employer.
(b) She thinks Lala will be able to study better at work with her than at home.
(c) She wants Lala to help her make money.
(d) She does not feel safe leaving her home with Carson.

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

3. Who does Mira confess some details about her feelings about her affair to?
(a) Tone.
(b) Grayson.
(c) Adan.
(d) Rosa's husband.

4. What gnaws at Tone even after he is punished for beating others?
(a) His sorrow over his lost baby with Lala.
(b) His guilt.
(c) The Thing He Can Not Name.
(d) His poverty.

5. Who is Dr. Thompson's daugther?
(a) Hattie.
(b) Janey.
(c) Wilma.
(d) Jennifer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Lala approach on the beach after Adan beats her in Chapter 18?

2. Where are the drugs Adan is proposing trafficking coming from?

3. Why does Lala pretend to be sleeping in Chapter 18?

4. What is a major reason Esme does not really want to marry her fiance?

5. What did Peter Whalen used to have a "thing" about, according to Mira?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Sergeant Beckles cheat on his wife with?

2. What incident prompts Adan's first beating by his Auntie Petra?

3. Who does Adan rob and beat many years later from his own childhood?

4. What does Tone show Lala that he has not shown to almost anyone else?

5. What is Adan fixated on, strangely, after Baby's funeral?

6. What story does Adan start telling just between himself and Lala about Baby's death?

7. What happens to Tone in his youth that generates great anguish and anger in him afterwards?

8. Why is Sergeant Beckles so anxious to solve the mystery of Baby's death?

9. Why does Tone feel partially responsible for Baby's death?

10. Who teaches Adan the ins and outs of a life of crime?

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