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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. What does the male narrator say he would name his child if it were born at sea?
(a) Hope or faith, after his plight.
(b) Sun, moon, or star, after the elements.
(c) Hunger or Thirst, after his pain.
(d) Freedom or liberty, after his journey.

2. Who said, "Gossip spreads here like everywhere else"?
(a) The old man.
(b) Celianne.
(c) The male narrator.
(d) A woman on the boat.

3. What does the male narrator try to buy from the women on board?
(a) Paper.
(b) A keepsake.
(c) Food.
(d) A hat.

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

5. What does the male narrator remember about Miami?
(a) The narrator can't remember anything about Miami.
(b) There are many opportunities for Haitians in Miami.
(c) It is sunny and doesn't snow.
(d) They speak Spanish there.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the male narrator dream?

3. Where are the people on the boat sailing towards?

4. What is the first narrator's name?

5. Why doesn't Celianne's baby cry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the relationship between the two narrators.

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

3. What phrase do both the narrators use to describe their love for one another? How is this significant?

4. Describe the relationship between Manman and the female narrator.

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

6. What separates the male narrator from the other passengers? How does he think differently? What does he do that the other passengers do not?

7. Why does Celianne jump overboard?

8. What does the male narrator ponder regarding gender?

9. From the female narrator's words only, what do we know about the political situation in Haiti? What is happening to them daily? What institutions are closed?

10. What happened to Celianne? Why is she leaving Haiti?

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