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

2. What does the male narrator have with him besides the notebook?
(a) A Swiss Army knife.
(b) A pipe.
(c) A hat.
(d) Two gourds in change.

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

4. What religion does the first narrator belong to?
(a) Protestant.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Voodoo.
(d) The narrator is not very religious.

5. Who is Agwé?
(a) The male narrator's father.
(b) A Voodoo spirit that rules over the sea.
(c) The female narrator.
(d) The captain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the passengers choose the name Swiss?

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

3. Why does the male narrator leave Haiti?

4. Which of these statements is false?

5. What does the male narrator say has finally made him an African?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the young man on the boat the first time he tried to sail to Miami?

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

3. What does the female narrator ask of her boyfriend? How does this differ from his request to her?

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

5. 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?"

6. Why does Celianne jump overboard?

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

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

9. What does the young man on the boat have to prove that he is a political refugee? Why is it necessary to have these things?

10. What does the male narrator remember about Miami?

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