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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old are the narrators?
(a) About fourteen.
(b) About twenty-five.
(c) About nineteen.
(d) About seventeen.

2. What does the boy say he is glad his boat is not full of?
(a) Pregnant women.
(b) Children.
(c) Cubans.
(d) Old people.

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

4. What does the girl’s mother hope for the girl?
(a) That she will return to the Massacre River.
(b) That she will get out of the country.
(c) That she will get revenge for her sake.
(d) That she will have someone to care for her.

5. What does the girl say when she finally talks to her mother?
(a) She tells her mother she loves her.
(b) She asks why she took her to Massacre River.
(c) She asks whether her mother flew.
(d) She asks when she will be home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator’s relationship with the groundskeeper?

2. What was the prison used for before it was a prison?

3. Who does Boukman see in the wall of fire that rises?

4. When was the Massacre River massacre?

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

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