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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 & 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the son do to make Guy angry?
(a) Tell a secret.
(b) Curse the mill-owners.
(c) Mumble.
(d) Curse the government.

2. How does the girl know the person who tells her that her mother has died?
(a) They play the questioning game.
(b) The person knows the password.
(c) The person carries a letter from the mother.
(d) The person has a piece of her mother’s clothing.

3. What does the baby in Between the Pool and the Gardenias make the narrator think about?
(a) A friend who could not keep her baby.
(b) The pregnancies she could not keep.
(c) The baby she had aborted.
(d) The babies she had given away.

4. How long does the girl’s mother make her food last, in prison?
(a) Hours.
(b) Days.
(c) Weeks.
(d) Months.

5. How is the boy’s book covered, according to the narrator?
(a) Shoddily.
(b) Carefully.
(c) Meticulously.
(d) Roughly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Madame and Monsieur say is holding Haiti back?

2. What does Guy promise never to do?

3. What did Guy and Lili and their boy eat when things were tight?

4. What danger does the boy’s boat face?

5. Why does the narrator say that certain women destroy at night the work they do in the day?

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