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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the first narrator of Children of the Sea?
(a) A father.
(b) A sailor.
(c) A lover.
(d) A farmer.

2. In what way is the ocean like the boy’s love for the girl?
(a) It is filled with life.
(b) It is tempestuous.
(c) It is endless.
(d) It is changeable.

3. How does the narrator characterize soldiers in Haiti?
(a) Inhuman.
(b) Decent.
(c) Machine-like.
(d) Vulgar.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people are passengers on the boat?

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

3. What does one of the mothers come home with, when she visits the prison where the ‘radio six’ are kept?

4. What likely happened to the boy’s boat?

5. What has the girl’s manman buried behind the house?

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