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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 & 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the literary term for the brief scene at the end of Seeing Things Simply?
(a) Repetition.
(b) Refrain.
(c) Cliffhanger.
(d) Foreshadowing.

2. Who told Emilie that her mother might be in Ville Rose?
(a) Her mother’s colleagues.
(b) Her network of informers.
(c) Her sense of intuition.
(d) Her mother’s letters.

3. How does Emilie say she became a woman last night?
(a) She lost her mother.
(b) She lost her innocence.
(c) She lost her hopes.
(d) She lost her virginity.

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

5. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?
(a) All Haitians.
(b) All immigrants.
(c) All Americans.
(d) All foreign women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy say is the only thing on Boukman’s mind?

2. What is Guy and Lili’s son called at school, on account of his hair?

3. What does the girl say her father regrets?

4. What do the prison guards suspect the girl’s mother of being?

5. Why does the boy say that no one will mistake him and the others for Cuban, now?

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