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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chpater Five, pages 111-133.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the boys figure out how to play billiards when they find a billiard table?
(a) An uncle shows them
(b) They've watched it on television
(c) They've been taught by pool sharks
(d) They don't

2. Why does Mama Wewe kiss Cesario while he's dying of cholera?
(a) She is telling him good-bye
(b) She knows he's going to die and she wants to die as well
(c) She hopes that it will comfort him
(d) She wants to take the disease from him

3. What do the Da Silva boys wear until they are about seven years old?
(a) Button-up shirts and slacks
(b) Long dresses
(c) Shorts and t-shirts
(d) Nothing

4. Why was Taparica tortured?
(a) It was believed he knew the secret of buried treasure
(b) It was believed he knew where escaped slaves were hiding
(c) It was believed he'd given up secret information to another country
(d) It was believed that he'd lied about the kind

5. What is significant about the trunks of the mango trees Mama Wewe passes as she walks with the professor?
(a) They have names carved in them
(b) They've been whitewashed
(c) They have handholds for climbing
(d) They've been sawed off

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the question the family wants answered before Mama Wewe dies?

2. What is used to make the rosaries that are the prized possession of Yovogan?

3. What is the cause of Yovogan's death?

4. What color was Father Olimpio de Silva's cassock?

5. What title is Joaquim eventually granted?

(see the answer key)

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