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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Miss Mattie's granddaughter's skin described?
(a) Dark.
(b) Medium.
(c) Light.
(d) Mottled.

2. What does Clare do at the end of "Chapter 4"?
(a) She goes to sleep.
(b) She delivers goods to people.
(c) She interviews people in her old village.
(d) She begins to build a house.

3. How many daughters do Kitty and Boy have?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

4. How does Clare feel about going away to college?
(a) She is afraid of being homesick.
(b) She wants to get far away from home.
(c) She is excited to get to redefine herself.
(d) She is nervous about her academic abilities.

5. What is printed on the notes used at the laundry?
(a) Directions for cleaning clothes.
(b) Fortunes.
(c) Tips for a good life.
(d) Recipes.

6. Why did Paul consider Clare to be cold when he was still alive?
(a) Because she used his friends for their money.
(b) Because she ignored his gifts.
(c) Because she left him after they made love.
(d) Because she didn't take him to the doctor.

7. How are the members of Paul's family killed?
(a) They are shot.
(b) Paul doesn't know.
(c) Their throats are slit.
(d) They are drowned.

8. How does Clare learn that Miss Mattie's land has been abandoned?
(a) A relative tells Boy.
(b) It is in the news.
(c) A lost letter from Kitty.
(d) Jennie tells her.

9. What name does Kitty call Boy during an argument, in "Chapter 3"?
(a) Slave.
(b) Black-man.
(c) Fool.
(d) Cheater.

10. How do the men in "Chapter 1" get their weapons?
(a) They trade for them.
(b) They steal them.
(c) They buy them from the United States.
(d) They build them.

11. Who does Charles have Christopher first serve?
(a) Himself.
(b) Charles's sister.
(c) Charles's wife.
(d) Paul's brother.

12. In the opening quote of "Chapter 3," what is the lover?
(a) A president.
(b) A criminal.
(c) An assassin.
(d) A fool.

13. Whom does Paul have help him bury his family members?
(a) A neighbor.
(b) The gardener.
(c) His girlfriend.
(d) The maid.

14. What does Boy say the sign was for his family to leave Jamaica?
(a) The hurricane season.
(b) The changing political leaders.
(c) The fires in the village.
(d) The death of Miss Mattie.

15. What does Harriet do for a living?
(a) Drag artist.
(b) Singer.
(c) Painter.
(d) Writer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jennie do when she first comes to the United States that reminds Boy of Kitty?

2. Why does Jennie come to live with Clare and Boy?

3. What does the Brother at the church give Christopher as a child?

4. In "Chapter 4," what ethnicity is Boy's girlfriend?

5. How does Clare say she felt after her mother left for Jamaica?

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