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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 does Adan do to Lala in Chapter 27 that makes her think he is really going to kill her?

2. What is one reason for Mira's extreme unhappiness in Chapter 19?

3. Who kills Esme?

4. What prompts Carson's hospitalization in Chapter 22?

5. How has Beckles come to take the solving of Baby's murder?

Short Essay Questions

1. What incident prompts Adan's first beating by his Auntie Petra?

2. What does Tone show Lala that he has not shown to almost anyone else?

3. What happens to Tone in his youth that generates great anguish and anger in him afterwards?

4. What problems did Mira and Peter have just before Peter's death?

5. Who does Adan rob and beat many years later from his own childhood?

6. What is Adan fixated on, strangely, after Baby's funeral?

7. Who takes care of Mira after Peter's death, and how does this person act around Mira?

8. How does Esme, Lala's mother, die?

9. What are some reasons Lala does not leave Adan after he starts beating her?

10. What proposition does Adan bring to Tone in Part IV?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Sergeant Beckles's behavior indicate about the power and status of men in positions of authority in Barbados? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What are some of Mira Whalen's most significant regrets following her husband Peter's death, and how does Mira handle the trauma of that event in its immediate aftermath? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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