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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lamort’s grandmother say will affect how people treat you?
(a) Who your people are.
(b) Where you come from.
(c) What you wear.
(d) What you do and say.

2. What is the narrator’s relationship with the groundskeeper?
(a) They slept together once.
(b) They have not had much to do with each other.
(c) They are married.
(d) They are regular lovers.

3. What is the password Raymond tells Lamort?
(a) Peace.
(b) Long live the President.
(c) Don't shoot.
(d) I'm a friend.

4. What did people watch at the sugar mill?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Cock fights.
(c) Dog fights.
(d) Government-sponsored TV.

5. What does the boy say he is glad his boat is not full of?
(a) Children.
(b) Old people.
(c) Cubans.
(d) Pregnant women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lamort’s grandmother rub her body with?

2. Where is the Massacre River?

3. How does the narrator characterize the boy’s voice when he recites his lines over his father’s dead body?

4. What objection does Lamort’s grandmother make to the hibiscus she has brought home?

5. What does the girl’s mother hope for the girl?

(see the answer key)

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