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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What secret does the girl’s mother reveal to her?
(a) How she escaped from the Dominican Republic.
(b) How she became pregnant with her.
(c) How to make the Madonna cry.
(d) How to make a bone soup.

3. How does the narrator characterize soldiers in Haiti?
(a) Vulgar.
(b) Inhuman.
(c) Machine-like.
(d) Decent.

4. Who does the girl say is her most trusted friend at Ville Rose?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her pen and paper.
(c) Her father.
(d) The banyan tree.

5. What does one of the mothers come home with, when she visits the prison where the ‘radio six’ are kept?
(a) Her living son.
(b) Her son’s death warrant.
(c) Her son’s body.
(d) Her son’s head.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the boy say that no one will mistake him and the others for Cuban, now?

2. Where is the narrator writing from?

3. How old are the narrators?

4. How many people are passengers on the boat?

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

(see the answer key)

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