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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose face is on the notes used at the laundry?
(a) Two children.
(b) Mrs. White.
(c) An old man.
(d) Kitty.

2. Who brings Kitty to the United States?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her sister.

3. In the beginning of "Chapter 1," what has just ended?
(a) A heavy rain.
(b) A long war.
(c) A day at work.
(d) A stock market crash.

4. How is Clare's skin described?
(a) Dark.
(b) Yellowish.
(c) Mottled.
(d) Pale.

5. What does Jennie do when she first comes to the United States that reminds Boy of Kitty?
(a) She sings Jamaican songs.
(b) She sews her own clothes.
(c) She shops in Jamaican food stores.
(d) She reads at night.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, why were the lands originally taken from the Jamaicans?

2. In "Chapter 2," how does being far from home affect some Jamaicans?

3. How do the soldiers feel about the house, in "Chapter 1"?

4. When Kitty has a flashback in "Chapter 3," what does Dorothy tell her?

5. What does Boy do at the laundry?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Clare's life change after Kitty's death?

2. What happens when Christopher has a vision of his grandmother?

3. How does Jennie adjust to life in the United States, in "Chapter 4"?

4. What happens after Kitty changes the notes, in "Chapter 3"?

5. What flashback occurs in "Chapter 3"?

6. In "Chapter 1," how are the soldiers' lifestyles described?

7. What is ruinate?

8. How is Clare's relationship with Paul defined?

9. What does the truck do, in "Chapter 1"?

10. What is revealed about Paul and Christopher when they talk to each other, in "Chapter 2"?

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