In the Time of the Butterflies

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-book review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. What is odd about the wall of family photos that Dedé shows the interviewer?

A) A portrait of Trujillo still hangs there.

B) There is no photo of the mother.

C) A painting of Christ is included with the photos.

D) There is no photo of Dedé.

2. Which of the following best describes Sinita, the girl Minerva befriends at the convent school?

A) She is beautiful but poor.

B) She is from a wealthy family and mocks Minerva’s lack of jewelry.

C) The other students must help her because she is deaf.

D) The girls fear her because her father is a member of Trujillo’s secret police.

3. What happens to Minerva’s friend Lina?

A) She writes an anti-Trujillo poem and soon after disappears from school.

B) She becomes pregnant by Trujillo and is put in a mansion near the palace.

C) Overcome by despair after her father disappears, she hangs herself in the convent kitchen.

D) After she is caught hiding guns for the resistance movement, government thugs take her away on Christmas Eve.

4. Which of the following best describes Mate’s initial reaction when Minerva reveals she wants the Dominican Republic to be free?

A) She goes to confession and prays for her sister’s soul.

B) She hugs her sister, congratulates her for her courage, and asks how she can join the resistance.