1. What does the male narrator pray for?
(a) That his love will marry a soldier for protection.
(b) That the sea will open up and swallow their boat.
(c) That the sea will part like in the Bible.
(d) That they will not hit a storm.

2. 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) The other passengers think he is writing about them.
(c) They are trying to lighten the boat.
(d) He wants to be one with the sea; the notebook is preventing this.

3. Why does the male narrator refer to Agwé?
(a) Because Agwe will protect him.
(b) Because Agwe is the captain.
(c) Because Agwe talks to him
(d) Because he has to throw his possessions overboard.

4. What appears after the female narrator thanks her father?
(a) A bright butterly.
(b) A raven.
(c) A black butterfly.
(d) A soldier.

5. Why does the female narrator's father sleep at his brother's house?
(a) So that soldiers do not make him sleep with his daughter.
(b) It does not say.
(c) Because he and the narrator's mother are separated.
(d) To protect his brother's family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "all anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too"?

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

3. How does the female narrator bathe herself?

4. What does the female narrator say about hail?

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

(see the answer key)

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