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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) Her father’s.
(b) Her husband’s.
(c) Haitian soldiers’.
(d) Her brother’s.

2. What does one of the mothers come home with, when she visits the prison where the ‘radio six’ are kept?
(a) Her son’s body.
(b) Her son’s head.
(c) Her son’s death warrant.
(d) Her living son.

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

4. Why does the boy say that no one will mistake him and the others for Cuban, now?
(a) They have such good equipment.
(b) They are all so poor.
(c) They are all sunburned.
(d) They are all seasick.

5. What flaw does the narrator say he has?
(a) He imagines too much.
(b) His imagination is frail.
(c) He cannot imagine the future.
(d) He imagines his death too easily.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the girl say is her most trusted friend at Ville Rose?

2. What is the girl told to throw away?

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

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

5. Why does the girl say she does not leave the house?

(see the answer key)

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