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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the Jamaican orphans have light skin?
(a) They are interracial.
(b) Their parents abandoned them for the United States.
(c) They are malnourished.
(d) They don't have light skin.

2. In "Chapter 5," what choice does Harry/Harriet tell Clare she will have to make?
(a) About what do say to her father.
(b) About where to live.
(c) About who to marry.
(d) About how to make money.

3. Where does Clare remember meeting Bobby?
(a) At work.
(b) At school.
(c) In a bar.
(d) Through a mutual friend.

4. How is Clare's London apartment described?
(a) Small.
(b) Full of light.
(c) Crowded.
(d) Dirty.

5. What does the interviewer in "Chapter 10" want to better?
(a) Jamaican crops.
(b) Jamaican relationships with America.
(c) The lives of Jamaica children.
(d) The crime in Jamaica.

6. In "Chapter 5," who does Harry/Harriet say raped him as a child?
(a) A black woman.
(b) A white woman.
(c) A black man.
(d) A white man.

7. In "Chapter 7," what is said to have happened to the woman's children?
(a) They were never born.
(b) They killed her.
(c) They left her.
(d) They stole her jewelry.

8. What does Clare do with her mother's old school books when she finds them, in "Chapter 11"?
(a) Brings them to her school.
(b) Reads them.
(c) Kills a bug.
(d) Throws them away.

9. In "Chapter 7," what is the woman said to have in her bag?
(a) Charms.
(b) Teeth.
(c) Magic.
(d) Money.

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

11. In "Chapter 6," what happens when Clare miscarries in the bed?
(a) Blood gets on Bobby.
(b) She sleeps through it.
(c) She cries to herself.
(d) Bobby runs away.

12. What does Miss Cherry say about Jamaica?
(a) That it is troubled.
(b) That it has too many white people.
(c) That it has the best food in the world.
(d) That it is richer than ever.

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

14. Why does Harry/Harriet describe sugarcane as being dangerous?
(a) Because of its spikes.
(b) Because of its sugar content.
(c) Because of the slaves who harvest it.
(d) Because of the cost of it.

15. Where does the quote in "Chapter 5" originally come from?
(a) A Bible passage.
(b) A poem.
(c) A song.
(d) A newspaper article.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Clare know Miss Cherry?

2. Why is Maypen Cemetery dug up?

3. When does Clare see the Jamaican orphans?

4. What does Clare do after meeting Bobby?

5. Why does Clare go to the film shooting location?

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