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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 twenty-five.
(b) About seventeen.
(c) About nineteen.
(d) About fourteen.

2. What likely happened to the boy’s boat?
(a) It was captured by Haitian sailors.
(b) It was destroyed in a storm.
(c) It arrived safely.
(d) It sank.

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

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

5. How does the narrator characterize soldiers in Haiti?
(a) Inhuman.
(b) Machine-like.
(c) Vulgar.
(d) Decent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prevents the girl’s family from leaving the city?

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

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

4. Whose baby does the girl give birth to on the boat?

5. In the song, the lyric says that the singer had to leave Haiti before what happened?

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