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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?
(a) All Haitians.
(b) All foreign women.
(c) All Americans.
(d) All immigrants.

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

3. What is the girl told to throw away?
(a) Pictures of dead soldiers.
(b) Clothes she wore to a rally.
(c) Letters from her father.
(d) Tapes of the boy’s radio show.

4. Who does the boy dream of?
(a) The girl’s family.
(b) His future wife.
(c) The bottom of the sea.
(d) His childhood home.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What likely happened to the boy’s boat?

2. What secret does the girl’s mother reveal to her?

3. How does the girl’s mother’s health change the next time she sees her?

4. Whose name is no one mentioning, according to the girl?

5. Who tells the girl that her mother has died?

(see the answer key)

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