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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the girl’s last hope, in the story?
(a) That her mother’s flight will be joyful.
(b) That a massacre will never happen again.
(c) That there will be revenge for the soldiers who massacred Haitians.
(d) That the river will rise against the Dominican Republic.

2. What do the prison guards suspect the girl’s mother of being?
(a) A provocateur.
(b) A terrorist.
(c) A spy.
(d) A witch.

3. What condition does Lamort impose on Raymond’s request to touch her breasts?
(a) He has to tell her a secret.
(b) He has to give her money.
(c) He has to get her out of this town.
(d) He has to tell her a story.

4. What is the narrator waiting for at the end of Between the Pool and the Gardenias?
(a) Justice.
(b) Death.
(c) Her family.
(d) The law.

5. What does the girl say when she finally talks to her mother?
(a) She asks when she will be home.
(b) She asks why she took her to Massacre River.
(c) She asks whether her mother flew.
(d) She tells her mother she loves her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator’s job, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias?

2. What does Lili want to know is in Guy’s dreams?

3. What happened to Lamort’s mother?

4. What is the dead baby next to when the narrator finds it?

5. Who is the first narrator of Children of the Sea?

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