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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the radio pick up a broadcast from?
(a) Cuba.
(b) The Bahamas.
(c) Miami.
(d) Haiti.

2. Who says, "Banyan trees are holy and sometimes if we call the gods from beneath them, they will hear our voices clearer?"
(a) The narrator's father.
(b) The female narrator.
(c) Manman.
(d) Madan Roger.

3. What does the male narrator say he would name his child if it were born at sea?
(a) Hunger or Thirst, after his pain.
(b) Sun, moon, or star, after the elements.
(c) Hope or faith, after his plight.
(d) Freedom or liberty, after his journey.

4. What did the female narrator's neighbor Madan Roger come home with?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Groceries.
(c) Black butterflies.
(d) Her son's head.

5. What does the male narrator say has finally made him an African?
(a) Being one with the sea.
(b) Rowing a boat towards America.
(c) The fact he is fleeing his homeland.
(d) The sun beating down and constantly darkening his skin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the old man call the first narrator?

2. What does the female narrator say seems to hurt her father's feelings?

3. Why does the female narrator think she will not marry a well-established man?

4. Who is the female narrator referring to in this passage, "He called me selfish, and he asked if i hadn't seen or heard what was happening to man-crazy whores like me. I shouted that i wasn't a whore. He had no business calling me that"?

5. What does the first narrator say lies beyond the mountains?

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