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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 is Adan's identifying mark?
2. Where does Lala sit with Baby in her arms on the beach for a long while?
3. Who takes Lala's money that she has earned?
4. Why does Adan leave Lala at the hospital alone having their baby in Chapter 1?
5. What is one reason Lala thinks Baby died?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Lala have to leave the hospital with Baby alone?
2. How does the one-armed sister lose her arm?
3. What is Tone's idea to try to avoid the consequences of Baby's death?
4. What surprises Sergeant Beckles so much about Wilma's story about Baby?
5. What has Mira Whalen's mother always advocated?
6. What is Peter trying to do when the robber kills him?
7. What does Mira want more than anything after she marries Peter?
8. Why does Mira repeatedly take the children to the convenience store in the middle of the night?
9. Why does Lala go out to find Adan in the middle of the night early in Part I?
10. Why does Wilma send her own daughter Esme away from the house when Esme is a young girl?
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
Write an essay analyzing the tone and language Jones uses to describe the physical and emotional abuse Lala suffers at the hands of her husband Adan throughout the novel.
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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