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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does her mother answer?
(a) She says that she will be home soon.
(b) She says that all the women who went to the river can fly.
(c) She says that no human being can fly.
(d) She says that it is important that the daughters remember their mothers.

2. What is the dinner table made of, in Guy and Lili’s house?
(a) Laps—there is no table.
(b) Shipping crates.
(c) Mahogany.
(d) Plywood and bricks.

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

4. In what way is the ocean like the boy’s love for the girl?
(a) It is tempestuous.
(b) It is filled with life.
(c) It is endless.
(d) It is changeable.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girl say is the biggest weapon the government can use against the people?

2. How does the narrator characterize the boy’s voice when he recites his lines over his father’s dead body?

3. What does he get instead?

4. Who are the macoutes?

5. What likely happened to the boy’s boat?

(see the answer key)

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