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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the first narrator like about the radio show?
(a) Being a rebel.
(b) The music.
(c) The narrator didn't like the radio show.
(d) The freedom of speech.

2. What do the passengers do to ease their nausea?
(a) Take turns rowing.
(b) Take turns swimming next to the boat.
(c) Sing songs and tell stories.
(d) None of the above.

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

4. Who said, "If you see me again, I'll be so dark?"
(a) The male narrator.
(b) Narrator 2's father.
(c) Narrator 2's mother.
(d) The female narrator.

5. 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.

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

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

8. What does the male narrator ask of his lover?
(a) Not to wait for him, as he may die in his effort to escape.
(b) To always voice her beliefs, no matter the consequence.
(c) Not to marry a soldier.
(d) To have the courage to tell her father about their relationship.

9. What does the first narrator do when Celianne goes into labor?
(a) Asks if anyone on the boat is a doctor.
(b) Keeps bailing water out so the boat doesn't sink.
(c) Moves to the other end of the boat.
(d) Helps her deliver the baby.

10. What does the male narrator have with him besides the notebook?
(a) A pipe.
(b) A Swiss Army knife.
(c) Two gourds in change.
(d) A hat.

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

12. Where are the people on the boat sailing towards?
(a) The Bahamas.
(b) The United States.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Haiti.

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

14. Who is the male narrator referring to in these sentences: "They say the Lord gives and the Lord takes away. I have never been given very much. What was there to take away?"
(a) The Protestants on the boat.
(b) Radio Six.
(c) The government.
(d) His family.

15. How old is the male narrator?
(a) Thirty.
(b) It does not say.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Around nineteen or twenty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the radio pick up a broadcast from?

3. What do the passengers use the tar for?

4. What does the male narrator say he would name his child if it were born at sea?

5. How many other people are on the boat?

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