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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has the girl’s manman buried behind the house?
(a) Money.
(b) A baby.
(c) Political buttons.
(d) Valuables.

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

3. In what way does the girl recreate her visit to the Massacre River when she goes to see her mother?
(a) She takes food.
(b) She shaves her head.
(c) She goes barefoot.
(d) She takes extra clothing.

4. How is the boy’s book covered, according to the narrator?
(a) Shoddily.
(b) Roughly.
(c) Meticulously.
(d) Carefully.

5. In what way does the boy surprise his father?
(a) He already knows his lines.
(b) He has already borrowed clothes.
(c) He has learned the whole history of Haiti’s slave revolt.
(d) He has already been rehearsing with his classmates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dinner table made of, in Guy and Lili’s house?

2. What does the girl’s mother hope for the girl?

3. What does the boy almost knock over, coming to his father?

4. What does one of the mothers come home with, when she visits the prison where the ‘radio six’ are kept?

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

(see the answer key)

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