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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the second narrator characterize her feeling in the first narrator’s absence?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Content.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Irritable.

2. Whose name is no one mentioning, according to the girl?
(a) Hers.
(b) The old president’s.
(c) Her father's.
(d) The boy's.

3. Why is the girl’s mother in prison?
(a) She was accused of stealing a baby.
(b) She was accused of bewitching a dead boy.
(c) She was accused of stealing food.
(d) She was accused of adultery.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What flaw does the narrator say he has?

3. When was the Massacre River massacre?

4. What happens to the girl when she gets to be with her mother?

5. In what way is the ocean like the boy’s love for the girl?

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