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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "He was going to make a good man, that boy. Sharp like a needle point, that boy, he took the university exams a year before everyone else in this area?"

2. How does the female narrator's father prevent the her arrest?

3. Why is the second narrator listening for the first narrator's name on the radio?

4. Who said, "Oh yes, you can let them kill somebody because you are afraid. They are the law. It is their right?"

5. What announcement is the second narrator waiting for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the sea personified in the story? What do the narrators descriptions of the sea tell us about the narrator himself? How does this contrast with the female narrator's descriptions of the mountains?

Essay Topic 2

Think about the author's use of color in the story. When is it used? What impact does it have?

Essay Topic 3

"I go to them now as though it was always meant to be, as though the very day that my mother birthed me, she had chosen me to live life eternal, among the children of the deep blue sea, those who have escaped the chains of slavery to form a world beneath the heavens and the blood-drenched earth where you live."

Consider the quote above. Explain its significance in the story. Pay special attention to syntax, tone, diction, imagery and meaning.

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