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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the passengers choose the name Swiss?
(a) Because Celianne dreamed of going to Switzerland.
(b) Because they were trying to survive on rations of cheese.
(c) For the knife they used to cut the umbilical cord.
(d) Because of the ethnicity of Celianne.

2. Who says, "Maybe we will go to Guinin, to live with the spirits, to be with everyone who has come and has died before us?"
(a) The old man.
(b) The captain.
(c) The male narrator.
(d) Celianne.

3. Who is the male narrator referring to when he says, "They're almost not human?"
(a) None of the above.
(b) The other passengers.
(c) Babies.
(d) Soldiers.

4. What is the connection between the old man and Cèlianne?
(a) Father and daughter.
(b) Neighbors.
(c) Uncle and niece.
(d) Nothing; they are both passengers.

5. What color does the first narrator say the sea is at night?
(a) Purple..
(b) White, illuminated by the stars.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

6. Who is Agwé?
(a) The captain.
(b) The female narrator.
(c) The male narrator's father.
(d) A Voodoo spirit that rules over the sea.

7. What does the first narrator say is the predominant religion of the others on board?
(a) Voodoo.
(b) Protestant.
(c) Catholic.
(d) They are not religious.

8. What is used as the sail of the boat?
(a) Tarps.
(b) They have no sail.
(c) Sheets.
(d) Shirts sewn together.

9. Why doesn't Celianne's baby cry?
(a) Because it is a good baby.
(b) Because it is stillborn.
(c) Because the passengers take turns rocking it to sleep.
(d) Because Celianne throws it overboard after she delivers.

10. What does the male narrator say has finally made him an African?
(a) Being one with the sea.
(b) Rowing a boat towards America.
(c) The fact he is fleeing his homeland.
(d) The sun beating down and constantly darkening his skin.

11. Who says, "I see you crying like a crushed snail, the way you cried when I helped you pull out your first tooth?"
(a) The male narrator's father.
(b) The first narrator.
(c) Celianne.
(d) The male narrator's mother.

12. Which of these does not appear in the male narrator's dream?
(a) Priests.
(b) Starfish.
(c) His girlfriend's family.
(d) Mermaids.

13. What is the relationship between the two narrators?
(a) Brother and sister.
(b) Friends.
(c) Father and daughter.
(d) They are lovers.

14. What do the passengers use the tar for?
(a) As fuel for the motor.
(b) To help Celianne deliver the baby.
(c) To patch up holes in the boat.
(d) As sunscreen.

15. What does the male narrator ask of his lover?
(a) Not to marry a soldier.
(b) Not to wait for him, as he may die in his effort to escape.
(c) To have the courage to tell her father about their relationship.
(d) To always voice her beliefs, no matter the consequence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the people on the boat from?

2. What does the first narrator say the sea smells like?

3. Why does the male narrator have to throw out his notebook?

4. What do the passengers use to cut Cèlianne's umbilical cord?

5. What does the old man call the first narrator?

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