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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 & 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the narrator takes the baby with her to the market?
(a) No one notices.
(b) People accuse her of killing the baby.
(c) People want to know who the father is.
(d) People accuse her of stealing the baby.

2. Who does the boy dream of?
(a) His childhood home.
(b) The girl’s family.
(c) His future wife.
(d) The bottom of the sea.

3. Why doesn’t the narrator’s mother go to parent-teacher meetings?
(a) She doesn’t want her daughter to be ashamed.
(b) She doesn’t want to fight with the teachers.
(c) She doesn’t feel like she is really raising her daughter.
(d) She doesn’t speak English very well.

4. What does Lamort’s grandmother say will affect how people treat you?
(a) What you do and say.
(b) Where you come from.
(c) Who your people are.
(d) What you wear.

5. What does the daughter do with the clothing her mother buys her?
(a) Throws it away.
(b) Wears it.
(c) Donates it.
(d) Sells it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Massacre River?

2. How is the boy’s book covered, according to the narrator?

3. How does the reader learn that the baby the narrator has found is dead?

4. What is the girl’s last hope, in the story?

5. When do day women come out?

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