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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Amabelle concerned about leaving Senora Valencia alone during childbirth?
(a) She doesn't want Senora to feel lonely
(b) She is concerned Senora will die
(c) She doesn't want her to have to push the baby out alone
(d) She is afraid Papi will become angry with her

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

3. Who does Pico name his son after?
(a) Papi
(b) A leader in the Dominican independence movement
(c) Himself
(d) The Generalissimo

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What should have been a warning to Amabelle's father that it was too dangerous to cross the river?

2. What prompted Sebastien to leave Haiti?

3. Why does the narrator's father caution her against playing with her shadow?

4. Why is Senora Valencia concerned about having Dr. Javier deliver her baby?

5. What does the narrator say she has never seen Sebastien do?

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