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

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

3. How many people are passengers on the boat?
(a) 18.
(b) 24.
(c) 37.
(d) 9.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What has the girl’s manman buried behind the house?

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

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

5. In what way is the ocean like the boy’s love for the girl?

(see the answer key)

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