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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the first narrator of Children of the Sea?
(a) A sailor.
(b) A farmer.
(c) A father.
(d) A lover.

2. What does one of the mothers come home with, when she visits the prison where the ‘radio six’ are kept?
(a) Her living son.
(b) Her son’s head.
(c) Her son’s death warrant.
(d) Her son’s body.

3. What happens to the girl when she gets to be with her mother?
(a) She forgets her name.
(b) She panics.
(c) She gets dizzy.
(d) She goes mute.

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

5. What is the girl’s last hope, in the story?
(a) That there will be revenge for the soldiers who massacred Haitians.
(b) That her mother’s flight will be joyful.
(c) That the river will rise against the Dominican Republic.
(d) That a massacre will never happen again.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the boy say that no one will mistake him and the others for Cuban, now?

3. Where is the Massacre River?

4. How old are the narrators?

5. How many people are passengers on the boat?

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