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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the girl narrator see this miracle as a sign of?
(a) Her imminent freedom.
(b) Her mother’s release.
(c) Her mother’s death.
(d) Her looming death.

2. What does the girl say her father regrets?
(a) Being mean to the boy.
(b) Ever letting her go to school.
(c) Keeping her from going with the boy.
(d) Letting her marry the boy.

3. In the song, the lyric says that the singer had to leave Haiti before what happened?
(a) He or she understood it.
(b) The country exploded.
(c) The old president returned.
(d) He or she was killed.

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

5. How many people are passengers on the boat?
(a) 18.
(b) 24.
(c) 37.
(d) 9.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the narrator’s account, who likely wrote the lines the boy is to say?

2. What does the boy say is the only thing on Boukman’s mind?

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

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

5. What flaw does the narrator say he has?

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