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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one reason Lala thinks Baby died?

2. What does Mira repeatedly buy at the convenience store?

3. Who is Adan's mother?

4. What is one reason Lala wants money in Chapter 14?

5. What kind of car does Rosa's husband drive?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mira repeatedly take the children to the convenience store in the middle of the night?

2. How does Mira Whalen behave for the first five days after the murder of her husband Peter?

3. What lie does Lala tell about where Adan was when Baby "disappeared"?

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

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

6. What does Mira want more than anything after she marries Peter?

7. What is Peter trying to do when the robber kills him?

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

9. Why does Lala go out to find Adan in the middle of the night early in Part I?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Wilma handle the aftermath of Esme's rape by Esme's father and Wilma's husband, Carson? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What do you think Wilma wants Lala to understand from her story about the one-armed sister early in the novel? What is the actual effect of this story on Lala? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Why is it so important to Lala, Wilma, and Adan to have a large and lavish funeral for Baby, and what does this preference indicate about Barbadian culture? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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