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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 farmer.
(b) A lover.
(c) A sailor.
(d) A father.

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

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

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

5. What has the girl’s manman buried behind the house?
(a) A baby.
(b) Money.
(c) Political buttons.
(d) Valuables.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where is the narrator writing from?

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

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

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