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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose baby does the girl give birth to on the boat?
(a) Haitian soldiers’.
(b) Her husband’s.
(c) Her father’s.
(d) Her brother’s.

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

3. In what way is the ocean like the boy’s love for the girl?
(a) It is endless.
(b) It is filled with life.
(c) It is changeable.
(d) It is tempestuous.

4. How are the narrator’s bed and her son’s separated?
(a) A curtain.
(b) Separate buildings.
(c) Separate rooms.
(d) Mosquito netting.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dead baby next to when the narrator finds it?

2. What do the prison guards suspect the girl’s mother of being?

3. What news does Guy finally tell his wife?

4. What story will the woman tell her son if he wakes up while she is with a customer?

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

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