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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 Tone sell on the beach?

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

3. What does Mira repeatedly buy at the convenience store?

4. Who does not want to let Mira and the children in at the convenience store?

5. What happens to the baby in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Lala have to leave the hospital with Baby alone?

4. What does Mira want more than anything after she marries Peter?

5. Why does Lala go out to find Adan in the middle of the night early in Part I?

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

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

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

9. What has Mira Whalen's mother always advocated?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What are some similarities, and also some important differences, between Lala's and her mother Esme's paths in life? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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