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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose baby does the girl give birth to on the boat?
(a) Haitian soldiers’.
(b) Her father’s.
(c) Her husband’s.
(d) Her brother’s.

2. What does the narrator compare Guy’s admiration for the hot-air balloon to?
(a) Men’s admiration for young women.
(b) Men’s admiration for the trappings of power.
(c) Men’s admiration for powerful machinery.
(d) Men’s admiration for fast cars.

3. What secret does the girl’s mother reveal to her?
(a) How she escaped from the Dominican Republic.
(b) How to make the Madonna cry.
(c) How to make a bone soup.
(d) How she became pregnant with her.

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

5. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?
(a) All foreign women.
(b) All Haitians.
(c) All Americans.
(d) All immigrants.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Boukman?

2. What does her mother answer?

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

4. What does the girl say she wishes she could do?

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

(see the answer key)

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