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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 do Madame and Monsieur say is holding Haiti back?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Racism.
(c) Voodoo.
(d) America.

2. How does the reader learn that the baby the narrator has found is dead?
(a) When its skin tears without bleeding.
(b) When it the groundskeeper finds it.
(c) When it begins to turn black.
(d) When it begins to attract flies.

3. Who tells the girl that her mother has died?
(a) A woman who had been in prison with her mother.
(b) A guard from the prison.
(c) A woman who has been to the river with them.
(d) A woman whose mother had also given birth in he Massacre River.

4. What does the girl say her father regrets?
(a) Keeping her from going with the boy.
(b) Letting her marry the boy.
(c) Ever letting her go to school.
(d) Being mean to the boy.

5. Where do Guy and Lili and their boy get their water from?
(a) The reservoir.
(b) The well.
(c) The faucet.
(d) The rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does her mother answer?

2. What does Guy promise never to do?

3. How is the boy’s book covered, according to the narrator?

4. What happens when the narrator takes the baby with her to the market?

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

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