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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is the first narrator grateful there are no children on the boat?
(a) He could not bear their complaints or cries.
(b) They do not understand oppression, therefore their presence is not validated.
(c) They would remind him of the despair they are struggling against.
(d) They would add too much weight.

3. With what do they patch the hole with at the bottom of the boat?
(a) Tar.
(b) Cloth.
(c) Paper.
(d) The sole of a shoe.

4. What does the first narrator say lies beyond the mountains?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Death.
(c) More mountains.
(d) The sea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the male narrator afraid might happen once they get deep at sea?

2. What does the first narrator say is the predominant religion of the others on board?

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

4. Who said, "Gossip spreads here like everywhere else"?

5. Why do the passengers choose the name Swiss?

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