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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What danger does the boy’s boat face?
(a) Leaks.
(b) Mutiny.
(c) Pirates.
(d) Bad weather.

3. Why does the girl say she does not leave the house?
(a) Because she cannot go anywhere.
(b) Because none of the shops are open anyway.
(c) Because there is too much violence in the streets.
(d) Because the macoutes are always watching.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the narrator writing from?

2. Who is the first narrator of Children of the Sea?

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

4. How does the second narrator characterize her feeling in the first narrator’s absence?

5. What is the girl told to throw away?

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