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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 33-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Senora Valencia concerned about having Dr. Javier deliver her baby?
(a) She does not want him to see her in pain
(b) She does not have confidence in his ability to deliver babies
(c) She does not want a man present when the children are born
(d) She does not want him to see her completely naked

2. What does the narrator have recurrent nightmares about?
(a) Sebastien leaving her
(b) Her parents abandoning her
(c) Her parents drowning
(d) Sebastien dying

3. What emotion does Amabelle see in Luis' face as he watches Pico, Valencia and the babies together?
(a) Exhaustion
(b) Sadness
(c) Joy
(d) Anger

4. How have Sebastien's hands become scarred?
(a) Building his home
(b) Escaping from the Dominican Republic
(c) Cutting sugar cane stalks
(d) Working in the sugar factory

5. What does Amabelle notice about Dona Sabine's home that makes her concerned "another Yanki invasion was coming?"
(a) Military guards at the gate
(b) Many more people working for her family than usual
(c) Felice is now working for Dona Sabine
(d) A wall built around her home to keep the Haitians out

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Amabelle wish she could remember from her past when she is helping Senora Valencia give birth?

2. How long has Amabelle worked for Senora Valencia's family?

3. Why does Sebastien insist he and Amabelle talk if they are not touching?

4. What torture does Tibon escape that many other Haitian immigrants did not?

5. Where do the cane workers bathe before work?

(see the answer key)

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