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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the narrator’s account, who likely wrote the lines the boy is to say?
(a) A Haitian historian.
(b) A Haitian slave owner.
(c) A sentimental European.
(d) Boukman himself.

2. Who are the Assads?
(a) Mill workers.
(b) The foremen at the mill.
(c) Owners of the sugar mill.
(d) Merchants near the sugar mill.

3. In the song, the lyric says that the singer had to leave Haiti before what happened?
(a) He or she understood it.
(b) He or she was killed.
(c) The old president returned.
(d) The country exploded.

4. Who does the girl say is her most trusted friend at Ville Rose?
(a) The banyan tree.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her pen and paper.
(d) Her father.

5. What does the girl narrator see this miracle as a sign of?
(a) Her looming death.
(b) Her mother’s release.
(c) Her mother’s death.
(d) Her imminent freedom.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the boy say is the only thing on Boukman’s mind?

3. What is the girl’s mother’s connection with the Massacre River?

4. Where does the girl visit her mother?

5. What does Guy promise never to do?

(see the answer key)

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