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

2. What is Atie like, according to Ifé?
(a) Atie is dumb.
(b) Atie is like a maker.
(c) Atie is like an angel.
(d) Atie is like a devil.

3. What does Atie say she sometimes writes?
(a) Prose.
(b) Poems.
(c) Letters.
(d) Articles.

4. How does Ifé feel after Atie yells at her makers at the kitchen table?
(a) She's laughing.
(b) Shocked.
(c) She's crying.
(d) Sad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grandma Ifé talk about on the way back from the market?

2. What does Atie ask Sophie and her mother to do after the family sees the package?

3. Where does Sophie keep her own pictures?

4. What life form does the woman in the story Sophie heard take on in order to stop bleeding?

5. Why does Sophie not want anybody to see her body?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens the night Sophie's mother introduces her boyfriend Marc to Sophie and what do they talk about?

2. Sophie and her mother talk about their health in the plane on the way back to the United States. What starts the conversation and what do they say?

3. 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?

4. What does Sophie's mother tell Sophie after arriving at her mother's house?

5. Why do Sophie's mother and grandmother go to the notary together?

6. One night, Sophie comes home from seeing Joseph and finds her mother waiting for her in the living room. What happens after Sophie gets home?

7. What name does Sophie make up for her boyfriend and how does her mother react?

8. What happens at the house of Sophie's grandmother after she and Atie have an argument about Atie's reading lessons?

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

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

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