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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Adan and Lala fight over in Chapter 14?
(a) That Tone stole Lala's money.
(b) That Adan is stealing too much jewelry and attracting the police's notice.
(c) That Adan stole Lala's money.
(d) That Lala wants to move to America and Adan does not.

2. What is one reason Lala wants money in Chapter 14?
(a) To bury Baby.
(b) To give to Tone to make up her debts.
(c) To buy new dresses.
(d) To go back to college.

3. What work did Wilma do in the 1960s?
(a) Sewing.
(b) Planting.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Braiding hair.

4. Who is in charge of the investigation into Baby's death?
(a) Sergeant Hendrickson.
(b) Sergeant Beckles.
(c) Sergeant Toneless.
(d) Sergeant Cannes.

5. What does Wilma tell Esme about what Carson has done to her in Chapter 11?
(a) That God will put things right.
(b) That she will take care of Carson.
(c) To go to the police in secret.
(d) Not to tell anyone about it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Wilma thinking about when Esme rushed into her workshop, all beaten and bloody?

2. Where does Mira live most of the year?

3. Who is really Lala's father?

4. What does Tone wear on a necklace?

5. Who does Wilma visit in the hospital in Part I?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Baby die?

2. How does the hospital staff treat Lala when she has her baby there?

3. Why does Lala have to leave the hospital with Baby alone?

4. What does Lala like to do on the beach to earn money?

5. What is Wilma's story to the police about her own marriage to Carson?

6. What does Mira Whalen sometimes feel she is being punished for?

7. What surprises Sergeant Beckles so much about Wilma's story about Baby?

8. Why does Wilma send her own daughter Esme away from the house when Esme is a young girl?

9. How does the one-armed sister lose her arm?

10. What interrupts the robber in Mira's house in Part I?

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