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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is odd about Celianne's baby?
(a) It does not cry.
(b) It has no hair.
(c) Celianne did not have a baby.
(d) It screams constantly.

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

4. What is the gender of the first narrator?
(a) It does not say.
(b) Female.
(c) Transgender.
(d) Male.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these statements is false?

2. How old is Celianne?

3. What does the first narrator wish he had with him?

4. Who is Agwé?

5. What is used as the sail of the boat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the male narrators life before he fled Haiti. What did the male narrator do?

2. What concern does the female narrator's father express for the male narrator? How is this significant?

3. What does the male narrator say about religion? What are his beliefs, if any?

4. How do the two houses the female narrator lives in differ?

5. What happens in the male narrator's dream?

6. What does the male narrator remember about Miami?

7. Name the smells the male narrator talks about.

8. How does Madan Roger's behavior differ from that of the female narrator's family?

9. Describe the relationship between the two narrators.

10. Why does the female narrator's father stay at his brother's house? What character embodies this fear?

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