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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says, "it had happened before all over this country and tonight it will happen again and there is nothing we can do?"
(a) The narrator's father.
(b) Madan Roger.
(c) Manman.
(d) The female narrator.

2. Why doesn't the second narrator sketch butterflies anymore?
(a) She does not say.
(b) Because she doesn't know how.
(c) Because her father forbids her to.
(d) Because Madan Roger told her the black ones bring bad news.

3. Why doesn't the female narrator's father approve of her boyfriend?
(a) They do not have the same political views.
(b) He wants someone who can provide her with more.
(c) He thinks the young man is not smart.
(d) He is racist.

4. What is the difference between day and night in the boat?
(a) All of these.
(b) The sun is up during the day; at night the sun sets.
(c) During the day it is hot and sunny, the sea and the sky are separate.
(d) At night it is cold and the sea and sky are one.

5. Who is the father of Celianne's baby?
(a) The narrator.
(b) She is not sure; she was raped.
(c) Celianne is not pregnant.
(d) A forbidden lover.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Haitian people gather to meet the president?

2. What does the male narrator pray for?

3. Which of these appear in the first narrator's dream?

4. What does the female narrator hear over the radio at the end of the story?

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

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