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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the girl say when she finally talks to her mother?
(a) She asks whether her mother flew.
(b) She asks when she will be home.
(c) She tells her mother she loves her.
(d) She asks why she took her to Massacre River.

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

3. What is the girl’s mother’s connection with the Massacre River?
(a) She was conceived there.
(b) She was raped there.
(c) Her mother was killed there.
(d) She was born there.

4. What does the girl do when the mother takes the statue of the madonna from her?
(a) She bursts into tears.
(b) She begins to sing.
(c) She begins to hyperventilate.
(d) She begins to pray.

5. Whose baby does the girl give birth to on the boat?
(a) Haitian soldiers’.
(b) Her husband’s.
(c) Her father’s.
(d) Her brother’s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girl say she wishes she could do?

2. What was the prison used for before it was a prison?

3. How old are the narrators?

4. Who are the macoutes?

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

(see the answer key)

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