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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Adan leave Lala at the hospital alone having their baby in Chapter 1?

2. Who does Wilma send Esme to live with in Chapter 11?

3. What is Adan's identifying mark?

4. Which worker at the convenience store is often assigned to watch Mira in the middle of the night?

5. What kind of woman was Wilma in 1963?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Mira repeatedly take the children to the convenience store in the middle of the night?

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

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

5. How does Baby die?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Lala's wedding ring, and the manner in which Adan procures it, symbolize about their entire marriage and relationship? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How is someone like Wilma's relationship to the police in Barbados different to someone like Lala's relationship to the police, and what accounts for these differences? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does Jones explain and describe the rapid disintegration of Tone's and Adan's relationship in the latter part of this novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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