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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the male narrator have to throw out his notebook?
(a) They are trying to lighten the boat.
(b) He wants to be one with the sea; the notebook is preventing this.
(c) The other passengers think he is writing about them.
(d) The pages are all written on and he has no more use for them.

2. Which of these appear in the first narrator's dream?
(a) The Haitian President.
(b) Mermaids.
(c) None of the above.
(d) His mother.

3. What is the setting the first narrator is in?
(a) Miami.
(b) The sea.
(c) Haiti.
(d) Heaven.

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

5. What spirit does the male narrator say he has to throw his remaining possessions over to?
(a) Agwe, the spirit of the water.
(b) Vishnu, the spirit of the sky.
(c) Zeus, the spirit of the sun.
(d) Gali, the spirit of hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many other people are on the boat?

2. What do the passengers do to ease their nausea?

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

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

5. Who says, "It is only my misfortune that would lump me together with an indigent like you?"

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