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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Amabelle notice pinned to Dr. Javier's shirt collar?
(a) A wood carving created by Sebastien
(b) A pin like one her mother had
(c) A wooden cross
(d) A wood carving like those worn by the cane cutters

2. What does the narrator say she has never seen Sebastien do?
(a) Cry
(b) Smile
(c) Work
(d) Laugh

3. Where is Senora Valencia's house located?
(a) In Alamandia
(b) In Haiti
(c) In Alegria
(d) In Guatemala

4. Where is Sebastien when the narrator wakes up?
(a) Making breakfast outside of the hut
(b) Asleep next to the narrator
(c) Working in the sugar cane fields
(d)

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "farming of the bones"?

2. Who does Senora Valencia name her daughter in honor of?

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

4. Who had Pico courted before Senora Valencia?

5. What thought does Sebastien suggest Amabelle replace the memory of her parents' deaths with?

(see the answer key)

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