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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prevents the girl’s family from leaving the city?
(a) Their car is broken.
(b) Gasoline ban.
(c) Militia in the streets.
(d) Their car is destroyed.

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

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

4. What does her mother answer?
(a) She says that she will be home soon.
(b) She says that all the women who went to the river can fly.
(c) She says that it is important that the daughters remember their mothers.
(d) She says that no human being can fly.

5. How long does the girl’s mother make her food last, in prison?
(a) Weeks.
(b) Days.
(c) Hours.
(d) Months.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Massacre River massacre?

2. What danger does the boy’s boat face?

3. What color would the women wear, when they visited the Massacre River?

4. Why does the girl say she does not leave the house?

5. What is the girl’s mother’s connection with the Massacre River?

(see the answer key)

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