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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Joseph's profession?

2. What time is it when Sophie comes home one night and finds her mother waiting for her?

3. Where is the airport located?

4. What is Atie doing in the yard later that night when she comes home?

5. How do Sophie and her grandmother react to Louise at the market?

Short Essay Questions

1. Sophie falls in love with Joseph when she is eighteen. Who is Joseph and how does she fall in love with him?

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

3. What does Sophie's grandmother do when Sophie sits on the porch, watching a pack of rainbow butterflies?

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

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

6. What does Atie do instead of going to Louise's house one night now that Sophie's mother is in town?

7. What happens the second time Sophie's mother tries to test her and she fails?

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

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

10. What does Sophie do for herself and for her baby in the morning, in Chapter 16?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sophie and Joseph's relationship develops over the years. Which changes occur? What causes these changes? Compare their relationship when Sophie is eighteen, when she has a daughter in Haiti, and when she returns to the United States.

Essay Topic 2

Atie's behavior changes over the course of the book. Explain the changes that happen to her. Compare how she behaves during the two different periods. How does she behave while raising Sophie? What does she do when Sophie returns to Haiti? What does Ifé think about Atie? Who's Atie's friend?

Essay Topic 3

Sophie's priorities and personality change over the course of the book. Compare the changes she experiences through the four books.

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