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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 & 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the girl narrator see this miracle as a sign of?
(a) Her mother’s death.
(b) Her imminent freedom.
(c) Her looming death.
(d) Her mother’s release.

2. Who does the boy dream of?
(a) The girl’s family.
(b) His future wife.
(c) The bottom of the sea.
(d) His childhood home.

3. What does Guy promise never to do?
(a) Take their son away in the hot-air balloon.
(b) Steal anything, and possibly end up in prison.
(c) Put their son’s name on the waiting list for a job at the mill.
(d) Go to any protests against the government.

4. What happens to even miscarried children in Ville Rose, according to the narrator?
(a) All the pieces are dried out and kept.
(b) They are ritually burned.
(c) They are hidden from anyone.
(d) All the pieces are buried.

5. What has the girl’s manman buried behind the house?
(a) Political buttons.
(b) Money.
(c) Valuables.
(d) A baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator’s roof still have holes in it?

2. What did people watch at the sugar mill?

3. Who comes to the narrator on Tuesdays and Saturdays?

4. How are the narrator’s bed and her son’s separated?

5. How old are the narrators?

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