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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the girl say her father regrets?
(a) Ever letting her go to school.
(b) Letting her marry the boy.
(c) Being mean to the boy.
(d) Keeping her from going with the boy.

2. How old are the narrators?
(a) About twenty-five.
(b) About nineteen.
(c) About fourteen.
(d) About seventeen.

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

4. How does the second narrator characterize her feeling in the first narrator’s absence?
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Irritable.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Content.

5. In the song, the lyric says that the singer had to leave Haiti before what happened?
(a) He or she understood it.
(b) The old president returned.
(c) The country exploded.
(d) He or she was killed.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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