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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does the author ask, at the end of "Chapter 7"?
(a) Is it possible to have a future?
(b) Can you remember how to love her?
(c) How do we continue without her?
(d) Do you remember what she said?

2. What does Clare say happened when her father tried to register her as white for school?
(a) He was caught lying.
(b) He was arrested.
(c) She was forced to take a test.
(d) She was given preferential treatment.

3. In "Chapter 6," what group of people is killed in Jamaica?
(a) A group of farmers.
(b) A group of elderly women.
(c) A group of American women.
(d) A group of soldiers.

4. In "Chapter 7," what does the woman do to the graves of the restless?
(a) She paints their headstones.
(b) She lights fires near their graves.
(c) She dances on their graves.
(d) She plants on their graves.

5. Why does Harry/Harriet send Clare a letter, in "Chapter 6"?
(a) To find out more about Bobby.
(b) To update her on political events in Jamaica.
(c) To pass news along about Miss Mattie's land.
(d) To say he misses her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Paul consider Clare to be cold when he was still alive?

2. What type of person's life is described, in the opening of "Chapter 2"?

3. What nationality is Bobby?

4. In "Chapter 4," what makes Clare nearly lose her balance?

5. Where was Clare a graduate student?

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