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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 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.

2. What do the passengers use the tar for?
(a) As sunscreen.
(b) To patch up holes in the boat.
(c) As fuel for the motor.
(d) To help Celianne deliver the baby.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the male narrator have to throw out his notebook?

2. What does the first narrator say is the predominant religion of the others on board?

3. Who is the father of Celianne's baby?

4. What does the old man call the first narrator?

5. How are Haitians treated in the Bahamas?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the first narrator happy there are no children on board?

2. Think about the final paragraphs the male narrator writes. Explore the contrast between the "deep blue sea" and the "blood drenched earth." Do you agree with the narrator's idea that he was meant to be a "child of the sea?"

3. 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?

4. How does the female narrator bathe in ville rose?

5. How does the soldiers' visit to Madan Roger's house lead to her death?

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

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

8. What is the significance of butterflies in the story?

9. What is the male narrator's last memory of his mother? How do you think this affects him?

10. What happens after the female narrator thanks her father? What is significant about this?

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