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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prevents the girl’s family from leaving the city?
(a) Their car is broken.
(b) Gasoline ban.
(c) Their car is destroyed.
(d) Militia in the streets.

2. Who does Boukman see in the wall of fire that rises?
(a) The faces of the government soldiers.
(b) The bodies of the slaveholders.
(c) The bones of his ancestors.
(d) The teeth of his enemies.

3. Whose name does Lamort say she wants to use, now?
(a) Emilie’s.
(b) Her grandmother’s.
(c) Her mother’s.
(d) Emilie’s mother’s.

4. What is Guy’s hairline supposed to indicate about him?
(a) That he is lucky.
(b) That his life will be troubled.
(c) That he will be wealthy.
(d) That he is not indigenous.

5. Why does the narrator say that certain women destroy at night the work they do in the day?
(a) So that they will keep their hands busy.
(b) As a way to bring men back to them.
(c) So they will always have work to do.
(d) As a way of distracting themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the girl know the person who tells her that her mother has died?

2. When was the Massacre River massacre?

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

4. What is the narrator waiting for at the end of Between the Pool and the Gardenias?

5. In what way does the boy surprise his father?

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