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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color would the women wear, when they visited the Massacre River?
(a) Green.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

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

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

4. What does the girl hear when she is hiding in the latrine?
(a) Soldiers shooting at a sniper.
(b) Soldiers beating her neighbor.
(c) Soldiers beating her mother.
(d) Soldiers searching her house.

5. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?
(a) All Haitians.
(b) All Americans.
(c) All immigrants.
(d) All foreign women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What secret does the girl’s mother reveal to her?

2. What does one of the mothers come home with, when she visits the prison where the ‘radio six’ are kept?

3. How old are the narrators?

4. In what way does the girl recreate her visit to the Massacre River when she goes to see her mother?

5. How does the narrator characterize soldiers in Haiti?

(see the answer key)

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