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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the boy’s book covered, according to the narrator?
(a) Roughly.
(b) Shoddily.
(c) Meticulously.
(d) Carefully.

2. What does the narrator say she feels about night-time?
(a) Tenderness.
(b) Longing.
(c) Affection.
(d) Dread.

3. How old are the narrators?
(a) About seventeen.
(b) About fourteen.
(c) About twenty-five.
(d) About nineteen.

4. What was the prison used for before it was a prison?
(a) An American fort.
(b) A slave auction house.
(c) A country house.
(d) A castle.

5. What secret does the girl’s mother reveal to her?
(a) How she became pregnant with her.
(b) How to make the Madonna cry.
(c) How to make a bone soup.
(d) How she escaped from the Dominican Republic.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the girl’s mother’s health change the next time she sees her?

2. What objection does Lamort’s grandmother make to the hibiscus she has brought home?

3. What does the boy almost knock over, coming to his father?

4. Who told Emilie that her mother might be in Ville Rose?

5. What does Lili want to know is in Guy’s dreams?

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