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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who did the male narrator leave behind in Haiti?
(a) His brother and sister.
(b) His parents only.
(c) His father and brother.
(d) His girlfriend and his mother.

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

7. With what do they patch the hole with at the bottom of the boat?
(a) Paper.
(b) Tar.
(c) The sole of a shoe.
(d) Cloth.

8. What is the male narrator afraid might attract sharks?
(a) Applying tar to patch holes in the boat.
(b) Throwing possessions overboard.
(c) Singing songs.
(d) Throwing the dead baby in the water.

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

10. Which of these appear in the first narrator's dream?
(a) Mermaids.
(b) The Haitian President.
(c) None of the above.
(d) His mother.

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

12. What do the Protestants see themselves as?
(a) Sodom and Gomorrh.
(b) Adam and Eve.
(c) Job or the Children of Israel.
(d) Noah's Ark.

13. Fill in the blanks: "Someone says, Krik? You answer _______."
(a) Tack!
(b) Krak!
(c) Bam!
(d) Black!

14. Why is the young man on the boat fleeing for a second time?
(a) He escaped once but was brought back by the Coast Guard.
(b) He needs proper medical care for his leg.
(c) He is actually a U.S. citizen.
(d) He is a drug runner and the police are after him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these statements is false?

2. Celianne gives birth to:

3. What was the name given to the Radio group the male narrator belonged to?

4. Who says, "It is only my misfortune that would lump me together with an indigent like you?"

5. What does the male narrator remember about Miami?

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