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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the difference between day and night in the boat?
(a) All of these.
(b) The sun is up during the day; at night the sun sets.
(c) During the day it is hot and sunny, the sea and the sky are separate.
(d) At night it is cold and the sea and sky are one.

2. Who says, "Maybe the world is flat and we are going to find out, like the navigators of old?"
(a) Celianne.
(b) The male narrator.
(c) The old man.
(d) Agwe.

3. Who scarred Cèlianne's face?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Celianne.
(c) Another passenger.
(d) Her brother.

4. What does the old man call the first narrator?
(a) Captain.
(b) Friend.
(c) Brother.
(d) Kompe.

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

6. Why does the male narrator feign nausea?
(a) So he doesn't have to help Celianne with the baby.
(b) His nausea is always real.
(c) He does not want to be seen crying.
(d) So he can write undisturbed.

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

8. Why does the male narrator refer to Agwé?
(a) Because he has to throw his possessions overboard.
(b) Because Agwe will protect him.
(c) Because Agwe talks to him
(d) Because Agwe is the captain.

9. How many other people are on the boat?
(a) Five.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Thirty-six.

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

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

12. What spirit does the male narrator say he has to throw his remaining possessions over to?
(a) Gali, the spirit of hope.
(b) Zeus, the spirit of the sun.
(c) Vishnu, the spirit of the sky.
(d) Agwe, the spirit of the water.

13. Who is the father of Celianne's baby?
(a) She is not sure; she was raped.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Celianne is not pregnant.
(d) A forbidden lover.

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

15. How many holes does the first narrator mention the passengers patching up?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Six.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the male narrator afraid might happen once they get deep at sea?

2. What does the male narrator dream?

3. Who is the male narrator referring to when he says, "They're almost not human?"

4. With what do they patch the hole with at the bottom of the boat?

5. What does the male narrator try to buy from the women on board?

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