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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 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?"
(a) Radio Six.
(b) The government.
(c) The Protestants on the boat.
(d) His family.

2. What was the male narrator's radio show about?
(a) Psychiatry/ Counseling
(b) Political talk and current events.
(c) Popular music.
(d) Upcoming bands and new releases.

3. Who are the main characters in the story?
(a) Celianne and Edwidge.
(b) Krik and Krack.
(c) Edwidge and Danticat.
(d) The two narrators; they are not named.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the first narrator say the sea smells like?

2. Who says they see a coast guard boat coming?

3. What happened to the male narrator's mother the last time he saw her?

4. What is the relationship between the two narrators?

5. What does the first narrator do when Celianne goes into labor?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is the line drawn in what is decent and what is not in the boat? What bodily functions, though unavoidable, are in a way shunned or cause the passengers unwonted embarrassment or vulnerability?

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

3. Describe the internal conflict of humanity vs. survival on the boat. What do the passengers choose to overlook? As their situation becomes more dire, what conflicts arise between them?

4. At what point does the female narrator's opinion of her father change entirely? Who helps her come to understand his actions?

5. Describe Ville Rose. Why is it special for the female narrator?

6. Describe the Banyan tree. Why is it important?

7. What does the female narrator tell her father at the dinner table? Why does she do this? What is his reaction?

8. Describe the conflict between the female narrator's parents.

9. What bird do both of the narrators mention? In what way do each of them refer to it?

10. Describe the male narrator's interaction with the old man on the boat.

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