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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator say that certain women destroy at night the work they do in the day?
(a) As a way to bring men back to them.
(b) So that they will keep their hands busy.
(c) So they will always have work to do.
(d) As a way of distracting themselves.

2. What color would the women wear, when they visited the Massacre River?
(a) White.
(b) Green.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

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

4. What is the girl’s mother’s connection with the Massacre River?
(a) She was raped there.
(b) Her mother was killed there.
(c) She was conceived there.
(d) She was born there.

5. What story will the woman tell her son if he wakes up while she is with a customer?
(a) That a man is a mirage.
(b) That she was not herself.
(c) That he dreamed it.
(d) That sex is a mystery.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does the girl’s mother make her food last, in prison?

2. What news does Guy finally tell his wife?

3. What does he get instead?

4. What does one of the mothers come home with, when she visits the prison where the ‘radio six’ are kept?

5. Why do the guards make the women dash themselves with cold water at night?

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