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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the relationship between the two narrators?
(a) Father and daughter.
(b) Friends.
(c) Brother and sister.
(d) They are lovers.

2. Where are the people on the boat from?
(a) Miami.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Cuba.
(d) The Bahamas.

3. Which of these statements is false?
(a) The male narrator helps Celianne deliver the baby.
(b) Celianne drowns with her baby.
(c) The passengers have to throw all their possessions overboard.
(d) The passengers run out of food.

4. What does the first narrator say is the predominant religion of the others on board?
(a) Voodoo.
(b) They are not religious.
(c) Protestant.
(d) Catholic.

5. What does the male narrator say are the only newborn babies he has ever seen?
(a) Kittens.
(b) Baby mice.
(c) Celianne's baby.
(d) Puppies.

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

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

8. What did the soldiers make Celianne's brother do?
(a) Pledge allegiance to the Haitian government.
(b) Impregnate Celianne.
(c) Rape his own mother.
(d) Join the army.

9. How old does the male narrator originally think Celianne is?
(a) Twelve or thirteen.
(b) Seventeen or eighteen.
(c) Fifteen or sixteen.
(d) Nineteen or twenty.

10. What does the first narrator wish he had with him?
(a) A pen because he is running out of ink.
(b) A hat to protect himself from the sun.
(c) Another notebook.
(d) More money.

11. Who is Agwé?
(a) The captain.
(b) The male narrator's father.
(c) A Voodoo spirit that rules over the sea.
(d) The female narrator.

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

13. What do the passengers use the tar for?
(a) To help Celianne deliver the baby.
(b) As sunscreen.
(c) To patch up holes in the boat.
(d) As fuel for the motor.

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

15. Who says, "Maybe we will go to Guinin, to live with the spirits, to be with everyone who has come and has died before us?"
(a) The male narrator.
(b) The old man.
(c) The captain.
(d) Celianne.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the other people on the boat offer to take care of the baby for Celianne?

2. What is the color of Cèlianne's baby?

3. What does the male narrator remember about Miami?

4. Celianne gives birth to:

5. How many other people are on the boat?

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