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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. How are Haitians treated in the Bahamas?
(a) "Like slaves."
(b) "Like prisoners."
(c) "Like dogs."
(d) "Like royalty."

2. Who said, "Now we will never be mistaken for Cubans?"
(a) The male narrator.
(b) Celianne.
(c) A man on the boat.
(d) The old man.

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

4. What is the relationship between the two narrators?
(a) Friends.
(b) They are lovers.
(c) Father and daughter.
(d) Brother and sister.

5. What did the first narrator like about the radio show?
(a) The music.
(b) Being a rebel.
(c) The freedom of speech.
(d) The narrator didn't like the radio show.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the passengers use to cut Cèlianne's umbilical cord?

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

3. What does the male narrator say he would name his child if it were born at sea?

4. Why won't Celianne let go of her baby?

5. Who says, "Maybe we will go to Guinin, to live with the spirits, to be with everyone who has come and has died before us?"

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Madan Roger? What happens to her?

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

3. What does the female narrator's father say about self-preservation that disturbs Manman?

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

5. What obstacle must the female narrator's family overcome before they can leave the city? How do they fix this? How does this blur the lines of good/evil and friends/enemies in the narrative?

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

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

8. 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?

9. What do we find out about the female narrator's boyfriend from Manman? How does this mirror Manman's own life?

10. Describe the male narrator's reaction to Celianne going into labor. What does this reveal about the narrator?

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