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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tells the girl that her mother has died?
(a) A woman who has been to the river with them.
(b) A guard from the prison.
(c) A woman whose mother had also given birth in he Massacre River.
(d) A woman who had been in prison with her mother.

2. What has the girl’s manman buried behind the house?
(a) Money.
(b) A baby.
(c) Valuables.
(d) Political buttons.

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

4. Why do the guards make the women dash themselves with cold water at night?
(a) To humiliate them.
(b) To keep wings from growing from their shoulders.
(c) To keep them clean.
(d) To keep them from sleeping well.

5. When was the Massacre River massacre?
(a) August, 1954.
(b) September, 1918.
(c) November, 1937.
(d) April, 1931.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does the narrator characterize soldiers in Haiti?

4. In what way does the girl recreate her visit to the Massacre River when she goes to see her mother?

5. What danger does the boy’s boat face?

(see the answer key)

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