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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Guy demonstrate to Lili?
(a) How the balloon flies.
(b) How the fence could be climbed.
(c) How he could get a job at the mill.
(d) How he could steal the balloon.

3. Why is the girl’s mother in prison?
(a) She was accused of adultery.
(b) She was accused of stealing food.
(c) She was accused of stealing a baby.
(d) She was accused of bewitching a dead boy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does he get instead?

2. What prevents the girl’s family from leaving the city?

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

4. What is the girl’s last hope, in the story?

5. What does Guy promise never to do?

(see the answer key)

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