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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 Sophie keep dreaming about?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her dog.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her mother.

2. What does Ifé do when a boy wanders into the yard?
(a) Ifé gives the boy water.
(b) Ifé gives the boy food.
(c) Ifé yells at the boy.
(d) Ifé tells the boy a story.

3. How do Sophie and her aunt travel the rest of the trek to the grandmother?
(a) By van.
(b) By foot.
(c) By mule.
(d) By cart.

4. What does Sophie notice when she sees her grandmother naked outside in the bath shack?
(a) A scar on her grandmother's body.
(b) A wound on her grandmother's body.
(c) That her grandmother is fat.
(d) A hump on her grandmother's body.

5. Atie behaves differently one morning at breakfast. What does Atie do when she eats breakfast?
(a) She eats with her elbows on the table.
(b) She keeps her head down as she eats.
(c) She smiles while she eats.
(d) She keeps her head up as she eats.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the woman that picks Sophie up also caring for?

2. What do Sophie and her grandmother buy at the market?

3. Why has Sophie's mother not met Brigitte yet?

4. What represents Sophie's mother in the poem?

5. What name does Sophie give her mother for the man she likes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Sophie and her grandmother eat their dinner outside in the yard, watching a light move back and forth in the distance. What does this light mean? What happens to it?

2. One night Sophie's grandmother cooks beans and she and Sophie have a conversation about Sophie's husband. What do they talk about?

3. What do Louise and Sophie talk about when Sophie gets out of the van and sees Louise?

4. What is Sophie's first year of her marriage like?

5. What happens at the sexual phobia group Sophie attends in Chapter 31?

6. What happens when Sophie and Joseph go to bed after Sophie calls her mom?

7. Sophie talks for the first time about her mother in the conversation with her therapist. What does Sophie say about her mother?

8. What does Sophie think about when she looks at a picture of her and Joseph on their wedding day?

9. Sophie and Atie have a conversation on the steps when Atie comes home one night. What does Atie talk about?

10. What does Sophie see after she bathes and changes the baby?

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