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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the boy’s book covered, according to the narrator?
(a) Shoddily.
(b) Meticulously.
(c) Carefully.
(d) Roughly.

2. What was the prison used for before it was a prison?
(a) A castle.
(b) A country house.
(c) A slave auction house.
(d) An American fort.

3. Why does the boy say that no one will mistake him and the others for Cuban, now?
(a) They are all seasick.
(b) They are all so poor.
(c) They are all sunburned.
(d) They have such good equipment.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girl narrator see this miracle as a sign of?

2. What does the girl hear when she is hiding in the latrine?

3. What does the girl say her father regrets?

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

5. What does he get instead?

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