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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the girl told to throw away?

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

3. Who are the macoutes?

4. What does the girl say her father regrets?

5. Who is the first narrator of Children of the Sea?

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