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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the female narrator's father sleep at his brother's house?
(a) To protect his brother's family.
(b) It does not say.
(c) So that soldiers do not make him sleep with his daughter.
(d) Because he and the narrator's mother are separated.

2. Why doesn't the second narrator sketch butterflies anymore?
(a) Because she doesn't know how.
(b) She does not say.
(c) Because her father forbids her to.
(d) Because Madan Roger told her the black ones bring bad news.

3. How old is the second narrator?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Nineteen or twenty.
(d) Fifteen.

4. Fill in the blanks. "Sometimes you have to choose between _________ and _________."
(a) Your mother and your father.
(b) Your father and the man you love.
(c) Liberty and death.
(d) Freedom and safety.

5. How old is Madan Roger?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Twenty.
(c) It does not say.
(d) Fifty.

6. What part of the female narrator's body shivers when she thinks of her boyfriend in danger?
(a) Her skin.
(b) Her hair.
(c) Her heart.
(d) Her arms.

7. What items does the second narrator's father want her to throw away?
(a) Her makeup.
(b) Her schoolbooks.
(c) Tapes of her boyfriend's radio show.
(d) Her notebook.

8. Who used to be a gardener?
(a) Madan Roger.
(b) Manman.
(c) The narrator's boyfriend.
(d) The narrator's father.

9. Where do the Haitian people gather to meet the president?
(a) The president's house.
(b) The port.
(c) The airport.
(d) The capitol.

10. Why do the female narrator and her father get into fights so often?
(a) Her father is trying to protect her, and she thnks he is trying to control her too much.
(b) He wants to send her to boarding school.
(c) He is actually her stepfather.
(d) They have different political views.

11. What were the soldiers asking Madan Roger?
(a) Whether she was planning to kill the president.
(b) Whether she was a member of the youth federation her son belonged to.
(c) Why she was unhappy.
(d) Where the male narrator was.

12. Who is the female narrator referring to in this sentence, "At the morgue, they say a car ran over him and took the head off his body?"
(a) Madan Roger.
(b) The female narrator's boyfriend.
(c) Madan Roger's son.
(d) The female narrator's father.

13. What does the female narrator say about hail?
(a) It is calming.
(b) It fall like angry tears from heaven.
(c) It is annoying.
(d) It falls like golf balls from the sky.

14. What did the female narrator's neighbor Madan Roger come home with?
(a) Her son's head.
(b) Groceries.
(c) Black butterflies.
(d) Soldiers.

15. What is the gender of the second narrator?
(a) It does not say.
(b) There is no narrator.
(c) Male.
(d) Female.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do both of the narrators refer to their love as?

2. Why does the female narrator tell her father that she loves her boyfriend?

3. Who says, "He was going to make a good man, that boy. Sharp like a needle point, that boy, he took the university exams a year before everyone else in this area?"

4. What rumor spreads in Haiti?

5. Where did the second narrator's family hide when soldiers came to Madan Roger's house?

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