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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where is the narrator writing from?
(a) A prison ship.
(b) The ocean.
(c) A port.
(d) American waters.

4. What does the girl hear when she is hiding in the latrine?
(a) Soldiers beating her neighbor.
(b) Soldiers beating her mother.
(c) Soldiers searching her house.
(d) Soldiers shooting at a sniper.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girl say is the biggest weapon the government can use against the people?

2. What does the boy say he is glad his boat is not full of?

3. How old are the narrators?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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