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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 Atie ask Sophie and her mother to do after the family sees the package?
(a) To fight.
(b) To reconcile.
(c) To write a letter.
(d) To invite each other.

2. Where does Sophie retrieve her daughter after noticing the statue of Erzulie?
(a) From the kitchen.
(b) From her own room,
(c) From Atie's room,
(d) From Ifé's room,

3. What does Louis want grandmother and Sophie to buy?
(a) Cola.
(b) Her car.
(c) All her food.
(d) Her pig.

4. What question does Joseph ask Sophie when he tells her he is leaving forever?
(a) If she wants anything from his house.
(b) If she wants to introduce him to her mother.
(c) If she wants to come with him.
(d) If she wants to marry him.

5. What does Grandma Ifé talk about on the way back from the market?
(a) About Sophie's recent behavior.
(b) About the village people.
(c) About Brigitte.
(d) About Atie's recent behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Joseph's profession?

2. Where does Sophie notice a statue of Erzulie?

3. Atie behaves differently one morning at breakfast. What does Atie do when she eats breakfast?

4. What does Joseph ask Sophie when he comes home from touring the second time?

5. What is Atie like, according to Ifé?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Book 3, Chapter 26, Sophie overhears her mother and grandmother talking. What are they talking about and what happens after the conversation?

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

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

4. After the argument between the Macoute and the coal vendor, what does Sophie's grandmother tell Sophie about aunt Atie's recent behavior?

5. What happens during the week before Sophie leaves to see her mother?

6. Sophie asks her grandmother why mothers test their children. What does her grandmother answer?

7. Pictures play an important role in Chapter 19. Why does Sophie want to take a picture of her grandmother and how does her grandmother react?

8. What does Sophie do the first two months she is living in New York?

9. One night, Sophie gets ready for bed and hears her grandmother dreaming. What does Sophie ask her daughter after she noticed the dreams of her grandmother?

10. What happens when Sophie asks Atie if Brigitte can sleep in her room?

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