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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prevents the girl’s family from leaving the city?
(a) Gasoline ban.
(b) Militia in the streets.
(c) Their car is broken.
(d) Their car is destroyed.

2. What terrifies Lili?
(a) The thought of her son performing.
(b) Snakes and insects in the grass.
(c) The thought of the mill closing.
(d) Militiamen coming for them.

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

4. When was the Massacre River massacre?
(a) September, 1918.
(b) November, 1937.
(c) April, 1931.
(d) August, 1954.

5. What does Guy ask for when he comes home?
(a) Food.
(b) Peace.
(c) Respect.
(d) Attention.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the second narrator characterize her feeling in the first narrator’s absence?

3. Who are the Assads?

4. What does the girl say her father regrets?

5. How many people are passengers on the boat?

(see the answer key)

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