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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the female narrator throw rocks at?
(a) Black butterflies.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Cockroaches.
(d) All butterflies.

2. What does the female narrator say her father moves like when she thanks him?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A true father.
(c) A bear.
(d) A butterfly.

3. Who is Madan Roger?
(a) The female narrator's uncle.
(b) The female narrator's cousin.
(c) The female narrator's mother.
(d) The female narrator's neighbor.

4. What appears after the female narrator thanks her father?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A raven.
(c) A bright butterly.
(d) A black butterfly.

5. Who says, "He cannot protect us. Only God can protect us?"
(a) The narrator.
(b) Manman.
(c) Madan Roger.
(d) The male narrator.

6. How does the story end?
(a) The female narrator goes to Florida.
(b) None of these.
(c) The lovers reunite.
(d) The female narrator runs away from her father.

7. Who says, "Banyan trees are holy and sometimes if we call the gods from beneath them, they will hear our voices clearer?"
(a) Manman.
(b) The female narrator.
(c) Madan Roger.
(d) The narrator's father.

8. Who is the female narrator referring to in this passage, "He called me selfish, and he asked if i hadn't seen or heard what was happening to man-crazy whores like me. I shouted that i wasn't a whore. He had no business calling me that"?
(a) Her father.
(b) Madan Roger.
(c) Her boyfriend.
(d) Manman.

9. What kind of man does the female narrator's father want her to marry?
(a) One who can give her more than she has now.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Someone like her cousin.
(d) Someone like the first narrator.

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

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

12. What does the female narrator say seems to hurt her father's feelings?
(a) His powerlessness.
(b) His rejection from the army.
(c) She and Manman talking under the banyan tree.
(d) The arguments between him and Madan Roger.

13. Who said, "If only i knew some good wanga magic, I would wipe them off the face of the earth?"
(a) Madan.
(b) The second narrator.
(c) The second narrator's father.
(d) Madan Roger.

14. Why can't the female narrator's family get out of the city?
(a) There is a ban on gasoline.
(b) Her father doesn't want to leave.
(c) THey have no car.
(d) The narrator refuses to leave until she hears from her boyfriend.

15. Why doesn't the female narrator bathe during the day?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Because people might see her.
(c) Because it is too cold.
(d) Because she likes to bathe beneath the stars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the female narrator think her boyfriend might be dead?

2. What does the female narrator see as they drive to ville rose?

3. Why is the second narrator listening for the first narrator's name on the radio?

4. What does the female narrator say about hail?

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

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