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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. How old was Florida's great-grandmother when she died?
(a) 51.
(b) 34.
(c) 18.
(d) 102.

2. Who kills her children in 1998?
(a) Khoua Her.
(b) Helia Hendry.
(c) Micheline Romard.
(d) Farican Marshall.

3. What does Bhargavi and her staff collect?
(a) Market fares.
(b) Mugs.
(c) Hundreds of stories from people who had spent time in healing shrines.
(d) Bus tickets.

4. What problem does Bhargavi's baby have?
(a) Reyes. Syndrome.
(b) Severe spinal disability.
(c) Cystic fibrosis.
(d) Herrington Halls Syndrome.

5. What does Bhargavi say she wants to leave behind as a legacy for her daughter and for the world?
(a) Her hair.
(b) Her book.
(c) Her mother's story.
(d) Her money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the shelter for the mentally ill in Erwadi?

2. What does Noami say she wanted for her sons?

3. Where does Naomi eventually move after prison?

4. Where does Kaylah go to college?

5. What symbolism does Aviv find about the man who saves Naomi in the river?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Naomi do on July 4, 2003?

2. What does Naomi's family begin to notice about her after the birth of her twins?

3. What is Naomi Gaines looking for, according to Aviv, when the reader meets her?

4. Why does Laura decide to go off of her medications?

5. What does Florida say is the solution for Black women who are feeling depressed?

6. What does Laura do when she is 25?

7. What had Naomi always felt was incompatible with being a Black woman?

8. What topic is Naomi very passionate about?

9. What do people eventually begin to think of Bapu in the last years of her life?

10. What does Bhargavi eventually begin to feel in her proximity to death?

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