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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how many generations has the statue of the Madonna been in the girl’s family before her?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

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

3. How does the girl’s mother’s health change the next time she sees her?
(a) She has a festering wound.
(b) She has a cough.
(c) She has a severe pain.
(d) She has lost her sight.

4. What does the boy say he is glad his boat is not full of?
(a) Cubans.
(b) Old people.
(c) Children.
(d) Pregnant women.

5. How does the second narrator characterize her feeling in the first narrator’s absence?
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Content.
(c) Irritable.
(d) Anxious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the macoutes?

2. What did Guy and Lili and their boy eat when things were tight?

3. What does the girl do when the mother takes the statue of the madonna from her?

4. What is Guy and Lili’s son called at school, on account of his hair?

5. What does Guy promise never to do?

(see the answer key)

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