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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first narrator's name?
(a) Edwidge.
(b) Johnathon.
(c) He is not named.
(d) Celianne.

2. Who said, "Now we will never be mistaken for Cubans?"
(a) The male narrator.
(b) A man on the boat.
(c) The old man.
(d) Celianne.

3. 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.

4. Who says, "I see you crying like a crushed snail, the way you cried when I helped you pull out your first tooth?"
(a) The male narrator's mother.
(b) The first narrator.
(c) The male narrator's father.
(d) Celianne.

5. 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) Hope or faith, after his plight.
(c) Freedom or liberty, after his journey.
(d) Sun, moon, or star, after the elements.

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

7. Who says, "Do you think your money is worth anything to me here?"
(a) The captain.
(b) Celianne.
(c) The old man.
(d) A woman on the boat.

8. Celianne gives birth to:
(a) Nothing; it was a false labor.
(b) A baby girl.
(c) Celianne was never pregnant.
(d) A boy.

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

10. Why is Celianne's face scarred?
(a) She got in a fight with another passenger.
(b) It is a family ritual.
(c) To disguise her identity.
(d) She was in prison.

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

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

13. 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 captain.
(b) The male narrator.
(c) Celianne.
(d) The old man.

14. What does the first narrator say lies beyond the mountains?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Death.
(c) The sea.
(d) More mountains.

15. Who said, "Maybe it's like you've always said. I imagine too much?"
(a) The first narrator.
(b) Agwe.
(c) Celianne.
(d) The second narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the male narrator afraid might attract sharks?

2. 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?"

3. Which of these appear in the first narrator's dream?

4. What was the male narrator's last memory of his mother?

5. Who are the main characters in the story?

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