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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the girl say is the biggest weapon the government can use against the people?
(a) Rape.
(b) Indefinite detentions.
(c) Propaganda.
(d) Hope.

2. What likely happened to the boy’s boat?
(a) It was destroyed in a storm.
(b) It was captured by Haitian sailors.
(c) It sank.
(d) It arrived safely.

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

4. How many people are passengers on the boat?
(a) 24.
(b) 37.
(c) 18.
(d) 9.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the boy say that no one will mistake him and the others for Cuban, now?

3. What is the girl told to throw away?

4. What flaw does the narrator say he has?

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

(see the answer key)

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