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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 Wilma's last name?

2. What does Peter Whalen do for a living?

3. Who does Adan blame solely for Baby's death?

4. Who is Mira's father?

5. What is at the bottom of the steps to Adan's house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Wilma tell Lala the story of the one-armed sister?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Sergeant Beckles's behavior indicate about the power and status of men in positions of authority in Barbados? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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

What do you think Wilma wants Lala to understand from her story about the one-armed sister early in the novel? What is the actual effect of this story on Lala? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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