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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. What does Peter Whalen do for a living?

2. What is one reason Lala thinks Baby died?

3. What is Adan's identifying mark?

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

5. How does Wilma describe the circumstances of her own marriage?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What interrupts the robber in Mira's house in Part I?

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

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

5. What is Wilma's story to the police about her own marriage to Carson?

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

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

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

9. How does Baby die?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Tone feel partially responsible for Baby's death? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Why is it so important to Lala, Wilma, and Adan to have a large and lavish funeral for Baby, and what does this preference indicate about Barbadian culture? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

What connections does Jones draw between Mira Whalen's upbringing as the illegitimate mixed-race child of a Black businessman in Barbados and her later marriage to Peter Whalen and her adult life in general? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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