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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was coming to arrest the female narrator?
(a) None of the above.
(b) The youth federation.
(c) Radio Six.
(d) Soldiers.

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

3. Who says, "People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us?"
(a) Manman.
(b) Madan Roger.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) The narrator.

4. Why does the female narrator think she will not marry a well-established man?
(a) They are not very well known in society.
(b) They are very poor.
(c) Her father will not let her.
(d) They do not speak Creole.

5. Who is Manman?
(a) Their neighbor.
(b) The female narrator's father.
(c) The female narrator's mother.
(d) The maid.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the female narrator bathe herself?

2. 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?"

3. Who used to be a gardener?

4. Where do the butterflies land to bring news?

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

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