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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Her Narrative.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the female narrator tell her father that she loves her boyfriend?
(a) Because she wants him to know she loved someone other than her parents.
(b) Because he thinks it will make him happy.
(c) Because she wants her father's permission to marry him.
(d) Because she already married him.

2. What announcement is the second narrator waiting for?
(a) The arrival of the president.
(b) The end of the gasoline ban.
(c) A message from her boyfriend.
(d) The university exams.

3. What kind of man does the female narrator's father want her to marry?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Someone like her cousin.
(c) One who can give her more than she has now.
(d) Someone like the first narrator.

4. Who are the main characters in the story?
(a) Celianne and Edwidge.
(b) The two narrators; they are not named.
(c) Edwidge and Danticat.
(d) Krik and Krack.

5. Celianne gives birth to:
(a) A baby girl.
(b) Celianne was never pregnant.
(c) Nothing; it was a false labor.
(d) A boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the female narrator's mother talk to her?

2. Who says, "Maybe the world is flat and we are going to find out, like the navigators of old?"

3. What promise does the female narrator reaffirm?

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

5. What does the first narrator write of the sea?

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