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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) The pages are all written on and he has no more use for them.
(b) They are trying to lighten the boat.
(c) He wants to be one with the sea; the notebook is preventing this.
(d) The other passengers think he is writing about them.

2. Why do the passengers choose the name Swiss?
(a) For the knife they used to cut the umbilical cord.
(b) Because they were trying to survive on rations of cheese.
(c) Because of the ethnicity of Celianne.
(d) Because Celianne dreamed of going to Switzerland.

3. Who did the male narrator leave behind in Haiti?
(a) His girlfriend and his mother.
(b) His brother and sister.
(c) His father and brother.
(d) His parents only.

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

5. What does the male narrator dream?
(a) All of these.
(b) That heaven was at the bottom of the sea.
(c) That mermaids sang in Latin.
(d) That he died and went to heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the passengers use to cut Cèlianne's umbilical cord?

2. What does the male narrator try to buy from the women on board?

3. What does the male narrator remember about Miami?

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

5. With what do they patch the hole with at the bottom of the boat?

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