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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the guards make the women dash themselves with cold water at night?
(a) To keep them from sleeping well.
(b) To humiliate them.
(c) To keep wings from growing from their shoulders.
(d) To keep them clean.

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

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

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

5. What does the girl say she wishes she could do?
(a) Kill with magic.
(b) Flee with magic.
(c) Flee the country.
(d) Join the army.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells the girl that her mother has died?

2. Who does the boy dream of?

3. In the song, the lyric says that the singer had to leave Haiti before what happened?

4. Where is the narrator writing from?

5. What does the boy say he is glad his boat is not full of?

(see the answer key)

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