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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the girl know the person who tells her that her mother has died?
(a) The person has a piece of her mother’s clothing.
(b) The person knows the password.
(c) The person carries a letter from the mother.
(d) They play the questioning game.

2. What did Guy and Lili and their boy eat when things were tight?
(a) Vermin.
(b) Mushrooms.
(c) Sugar cane pulp.
(d) Government rations.

3. In what way is the ocean like the boy’s love for the girl?
(a) It is changeable.
(b) It is endless.
(c) It is filled with life.
(d) It is tempestuous.

4. Who does the girl say is her most trusted friend at Ville Rose?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her pen and paper.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The banyan tree.

5. How is the boy’s book covered, according to the narrator?
(a) Meticulously.
(b) Roughly.
(c) Shoddily.
(d) Carefully.

6. Why did Guy and Lili keep their son close to them at the sugar mill?
(a) So he would not run off and be thought indigent.
(b) So he would not think that he was alone there.
(c) So he would not stare at people and be called insolent.
(d) So he would not play with the other rough boys.

7. How many people are passengers on the boat?
(a) 24.
(b) 18.
(c) 9.
(d) 37.

8. What does Guy demonstrate to Lili?
(a) How he could steal the balloon.
(b) How the fence could be climbed.
(c) How he could get a job at the mill.
(d) How the balloon flies.

9. Whose name is no one mentioning, according to the girl?
(a) Hers.
(b) Her father's.
(c) The old president’s.
(d) The boy's.

10. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?
(a) All immigrants.
(b) All Haitians.
(c) All foreign women.
(d) All Americans.

11. What does Guy ask for when he comes home?
(a) Food.
(b) Peace.
(c) Respect.
(d) Attention.

12. In what way does the boy surprise his father?
(a) He already knows his lines.
(b) He has already borrowed clothes.
(c) He has learned the whole history of Haiti’s slave revolt.
(d) He has already been rehearsing with his classmates.

13. Why do the guards make the women dash themselves with cold water at night?
(a) To keep them from sleeping well.
(b) To keep wings from growing from their shoulders.
(c) To humiliate them.
(d) To keep them clean.

14. What does Guy promise never to do?
(a) Go to any protests against the government.
(b) Steal anything, and possibly end up in prison.
(c) Take their son away in the hot-air balloon.
(d) Put their son’s name on the waiting list for a job at the mill.

15. Who are the Assads?
(a) Mill workers.
(b) The foremen at the mill.
(c) Merchants near the sugar mill.
(d) Owners of the sugar mill.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old are the narrators?

2. What is the girl’s last hope, in the story?

3. What does the girl say her father regrets?

4. Why does the girl say she does not leave the house?

5. In the song, the lyric says that the singer had to leave Haiti before what happened?

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