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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrators father call the place they are escaping to?
(a) Miami.
(b) The sunshine state.
(c) Civilization.
(d) Children of the Sea.

2. What does the narrator's father do the day the family leaves the city?
(a) Apologizes to the female narrator.
(b) Burns their house down.
(c) Kills a soldier.
(d) Checks on Madan Roger.

3. Who is the female narrator referring to in this sentence, "I wish he would catch a bullet so we could see how scared he really is"?
(a) Her Uncle.
(b) Manman.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her boyfriend.

4. Who were the soldiers looking for in Madan Roger's house?
(a) The female narrator.
(b) Manman.
(c) The female narrator's boyfriend.
(d) Madan Roger's son.

5. How does the story end?
(a) The female narrator runs away from her father.
(b) None of these.
(c) The lovers reunite.
(d) The female narrator goes to Florida.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't the female narrator's father approve of her boyfriend?

2. How long does the female narrator say banyan trees last?

3. Who says, "it had happened before all over this country and tonight it will happen again and there is nothing we can do?"

4. Why was the female narrator almost arrested?

5. What items does the second narrator's father want her to throw away?

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