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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does the girl say is her most trusted friend at Ville Rose?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her pen and paper.
(d) The banyan tree.

4. 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) He or she was killed.
(d) The country exploded.

5. What is the girl told to throw away?
(a) Letters from her father.
(b) Clothes she wore to a rally.
(c) Pictures of dead soldiers.
(d) Tapes of the boy’s radio show.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose name is no one mentioning, according to the girl?

2. How does the narrator characterize soldiers in Haiti?

3. Who does the boy dream of?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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