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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 & Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator say that certain women destroy at night the work they do in the day?
(a) As a way of distracting themselves.
(b) So that they will keep their hands busy.
(c) So they will always have work to do.
(d) As a way to bring men back to them.

2. What does Lamort tell Emilie when Emilie asks whether there were any women’s bodies found after the coup?
(a) She says that the bodies were all burned.
(b) She says that anyone inquiring about the dead was killed too.
(c) She says that there were no bodies.
(d) She says that the bodies were buried immediately.

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

4. What is Mrs. Azile always making soup from?
(a) Chicken bones.
(b) Fish bones.
(c) Cow bones.
(d) Turtle liver.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the act of writing, in the epilogue?

2. What did people watch at the sugar mill?

3. What does Lamort take to the guest at her grandmother’s house?

4. What likely happened to the boy’s boat?

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

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