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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the Massacre River?
(a) In the mountains.
(b) On the border with Cuba.
(c) In the center of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
(d) On the border with the Dominican Republic.

2. What does the narrator of Night Women tell her son when he asks about the angels?
(a) That he will wish he had not seen them, when he does.
(b) That he has all his life to see angels.
(c) That he will never see them when he is looking.
(d) That he will see them soon enough.

3. Who tells the girl that her mother has died?
(a) A guard from the prison.
(b) A woman whose mother had also given birth in he Massacre River.
(c) A woman who had been in prison with her mother.
(d) A woman who has been to the river with them.

4. What regime does Lamort say she supports?
(a) The old regime.
(b) The ancient regime.
(c) God’s regime.
(d) The new regime.

5. What does the girl say is the biggest weapon the government can use against the people?
(a) Hope.
(b) Propaganda.
(c) Rape.
(d) Indefinite detentions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the song, the lyric says that the singer had to leave Haiti before what happened?

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

4. Where does the girl visit her mother?

5. What effect does the boy’s speech have on Guy and Lili?

(see the answer key)

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