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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What miracle does Nineteen Thirty-Seven start with?
(a) A healing scar.
(b) A crying madonna.
(c) A man brought back to life.
(d) The face of Jesus.

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

3. How long does the girl’s mother make her food last, in prison?
(a) Hours.
(b) Weeks.
(c) Days.
(d) Months.

4. What flaw does the narrator say he has?
(a) His imagination is frail.
(b) He imagines his death too easily.
(c) He imagines too much.
(d) He cannot imagine the future.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people are passengers on the boat?

2. What does the narrator compare Guy’s admiration for the hot-air balloon to?

3. In what way is the ocean like the boy’s love for the girl?

4. What does the son do to make Guy angry?

5. Who is Boukman?

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