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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is used as the sail of the boat?
(a) Tarps.
(b) They have no sail.
(c) Shirts sewn together.
(d) Sheets.

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

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

4. What was the male narrator's last memory of his mother?
(a) Giving him money for his trip.
(b) At home making dinner.
(c) Waving goodbye at the port.
(d) Her fainting by the ocean.

5. Why does the male narrator leave Haiti?
(a) He is fleeing the oppression of the Haitian government.
(b) He escaped prison and is hoping for freedom in the U.S.
(c) He is running away from his lover's angry father.
(d) He thinks he can make more money in the United States.

6. What was the male narrator's radio show about?
(a) Upcoming bands and new releases.
(b) Political talk and current events.
(c) Popular music.
(d) Psychiatry/ Counseling

7. Why does Cèlianne wake up screaming the first time?
(a) She has a bad dream.
(b) She sees water leaking into the boat.
(c) She sees a shark.
(d) She is in labor.

8. What happened to the male narrator's mother the last time he saw her?
(a) She fainted as he was sailing away.
(b) She was killed by soldiers
(c) His mother is in the boat with him.
(d) His mother died in childbirth.

9. Who are the main characters in the story?
(a) Edwidge and Danticat.
(b) The two narrators; they are not named.
(c) Celianne and Edwidge.
(d) Krik and Krack.

10. Who is the male narrator referring to when he says, "They're almost not human?"
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Babies.
(c) None of the above.
(d) The other passengers.

11. How old is Celianne?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Thirty.

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

13. What does the male narrator try to buy from the women on board?
(a) A hat.
(b) A keepsake.
(c) Paper.
(d) Food.

14. Who says, "It is only my misfortune that would lump me together with an indigent like you?"
(a) It does not specify.
(b) The captain.
(c) The male narrator.
(d) The old man.

15. Who said, "Gossip spreads here like everywhere else"?
(a) The male narrator.
(b) Celianne.
(c) The old man.
(d) A woman on the boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many other people are on the boat?

2. What color does the first narrator say the sea is at night?

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

4. What do the Protestants see themselves as?

5. How are Haitians treated in the Bahamas?

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