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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What news does Guy finally tell his wife?
(a) That he was fired.
(b) That he was promoted.
(c) That he got work for the next day.
(d) That he was hired full-time.

3. How does the narrator characterize the boy’s voice when he recites his lines over his father’s dead body?
(a) A child’s little whimper.
(b) A woman’s tender lament.
(c) An old man’s rasp.
(d) A man’s grieving roar.

4. Who does the boy dream of?
(a) The bottom of the sea.
(b) His childhood home.
(c) His future wife.
(d) The girl’s family.

5. How old are the narrators?
(a) About seventeen.
(b) About nineteen.
(c) About fourteen.
(d) About twenty-five.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize soldiers in Haiti?

2. What is Guy’s first response to the news that their son will be in a play?

3. What is Guy’s hairline supposed to indicate about him?

4. Where is the Massacre River?

5. What has the girl’s manman buried behind the house?

(see the answer key)

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