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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event happens before Kitty and Boy leave for the United States?
(a) A political change.
(b) A murder.
(c) An illness.
(d) A robbery.

2. According to the narrator, why were the lands originally taken from the Jamaicans?
(a) To be cleared for agriculture.
(b) To prove English power.
(c) To build apartment buildings.
(d) To try to help the native farmers.

3. When Paul comes home in "Chapter 2," what does he see?
(a) A fire in his backyard.
(b) Someone puking in his pool.
(c) A mysterious car.
(d) His parents waiting up for him.

4. What does Boy do at the laundry?
(a) Delivers.
(b) Irons.
(c) Cleans the back room.
(d) Takes orders.

5. What does Bobby reveal about his wound after Clare becomes pregnant?
(a) That he's had it since before the war.
(b) That it hurts less now.
(c) That he did it to himself.
(d) That he is infected with a nerve toxin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Paul have help him bury his family members?

2. Why does the narrator say Christopher didn't see the newspaper headlines about the murders?

3. In "Chapter 2," how is Christopher's childhood home described?

4. In "Chapter 5," who does Clare imagine comes to visit her in a taxi?

5. In "Chapter 8," what does Clare tell Harry/Harriet about her mother?

(see the answer key)

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