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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do Guy and Lili and their boy get their water from?
(a) The rain.
(b) The reservoir.
(c) The well.
(d) The faucet.

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

4. What does the girl hear when she is hiding in the latrine?
(a) Soldiers beating her neighbor.
(b) Soldiers beating her mother.
(c) Soldiers shooting at a sniper.
(d) Soldiers searching her house.

5. What likely happened to the boy’s boat?
(a) It was captured by Haitian sailors.
(b) It arrived safely.
(c) It was destroyed in a storm.
(d) It sank.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?

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

3. Why does the boy say that no one will mistake him and the others for Cuban, now?

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

5. What danger does the boy’s boat face?

(see the answer key)

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