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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) Gasoline ban.
(b) Militia in the streets.
(c) Their car is destroyed.
(d) Their car is broken.

2. Why does the girl say she does not leave the house?
(a) Because she cannot go anywhere.
(b) Because none of the shops are open anyway.
(c) Because the macoutes are always watching.
(d) Because there is too much violence in the streets.

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

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

5. In what way is the ocean like the boy’s love for the girl?
(a) It is filled with life.
(b) It is endless.
(c) It is changeable.
(d) It is tempestuous.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the narrator writing from?

2. Who does the boy dream of?

3. How many people are passengers on the boat?

4. What does the girl hear when she is hiding in the latrine?

5. What does one of the mothers come home with, when she visits the prison where the ‘radio six’ are kept?

(see the answer key)

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