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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the story end?
(a) None of these.
(b) The lovers reunite.
(c) The female narrator runs away from her father.
(d) The female narrator goes to Florida.

2. How does the second narrator pass time in the house?
(a) Knitting.
(b) Killing cockroaches.
(c) Organizing Radio Six.
(d) Singing songs.

3. What does the female narrator's father find in her room?
(a) Guns.
(b) Her boyfriend's radio tapes.
(c) Propaganda.
(d) Drugs.

4. Who used to be a gardener?
(a) The narrator's father.
(b) Madan Roger.
(c) Manman.
(d) The narrator's boyfriend.

5. Where do the Haitian people gather to meet the president?
(a) The airport.
(b) The port.
(c) The president's house.
(d) The capitol.

6. Why can't the female narrator's family get out of the city?
(a) THey have no car.
(b) There is a ban on gasoline.
(c) Her father doesn't want to leave.
(d) The narrator refuses to leave until she hears from her boyfriend.

7. What is there a lot of in Ville Rose?
(a) Moths.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Butterflies.
(d) Wildlife.

8. Who says, "I don't know what is going to happen, but I cannot see staying here forever?"
(a) The narrator's father.
(b) Manman.
(c) Madan Roger.
(d) The female narrator.

9. How does the female narrator bathe herself?
(a) In the stream during the day.
(b) In the stream in the morning.
(c) By warming water in the sun and waiting until night to bathe under the banyan tree.
(d) Under the banyan tree at noon.

10. Why were students shot outside the Fort Dimanche Prison?
(a) They were demonstrating for the bodies of the radio six.
(b) They had weapons and threatened to use them.
(c) None of the above.
(d) They were trying to help the Radio Six escape.

11. What does the female narrator say about hail?
(a) It is calming.
(b) It is annoying.
(c) It falls like golf balls from the sky.
(d) It fall like angry tears from heaven.

12. What does the narrator say lies beyond the mountains?
(a) The beach.
(b) More mountains.
(c) The sea.
(d) The jungle.

13. What do bright butterflies bring?
(a) Death.
(b) Sad news.
(c) Hope.
(d) Happy news.

14. What promise does the female narrator reaffirm?
(a) To marry someone that can take care of her.
(b) To obey her father no matter what.
(c) To avenge her lover's death.
(d) To keep writing, and he will keep writing as well.

15. Why doesn't the female narrator's father approve of her boyfriend?
(a) He thinks the young man is not smart.
(b) He is racist.
(c) He wants someone who can provide her with more.
(d) They do not have the same political views.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the female narrator hear over the radio at the end of the story?

2. Which of these statements is true?

3. What does the female narrator's mother purchase for herself and her daughter?

4. What does the narrators father call the place they are escaping to?

5. What does the narrator's father do the day the family leaves the city?

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