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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. What does Bobby do when Clare asks him about the Vietnam war?
(a) He tells her everything.
(b) He asks her to stop.
(c) He yells at her.
(d) He says he'll talk to her, but he may lie.

2. Where does Clare first go when she arrives in Jamaica?
(a) Harry/Harriet's house.
(b) Miss Mattie's land.
(c) Her aunt's house.
(d) The hospital.

3. In "Chapter 9," where does it say Christopher grew old?
(a) On a houseboat.
(b) In church.
(c) On the streets.
(d) In Florida.

4. 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 how to make money.
(d) About who to marry.

5. How does Clare die?
(a) She is shot by a helicopter.
(b) Her infection kills her.
(c) She is stabbed by a native in the brush.
(d) She is in a car accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author ask what has happened to the woman, in "Chapter 7"?

2. Where does Christopher get the nickname "the watchman"?

3. What does the doctor in "Chapter 8" tell Clare?

4. Why does Harry/Harriet describe sugarcane as being dangerous?

5. What does the interviewer ask Clare about killing for food?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the helicopter flies overhead during the film shoot?

2. Why is Clare interviewed, in "Chapter 10"?

3. How is the woman in "Chapter 7" described?

4. Why does Clare say the burial grounds on Miss Mattie's land is "unquiet"?

5. When the author describes Bobby's past, what does she talk about?

6. What is the author worried about, in "Chapter 7"?

7. How would you describe the beginning of Clare and Bobby's relationship?

8. What does Clare do when she arrives at the movie set, in "Chapter 11"?

9. Why does Clare search Paris, in "Chapter 8"?

10. What does Clare do when she arrives at Miss Mattie's land, in "Chapter 8"?

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