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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 & 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way does the girl recreate her visit to the Massacre River when she goes to see her mother?
(a) She shaves her head.
(b) She goes barefoot.
(c) She takes food.
(d) She takes extra clothing.

2. How are the narrator’s bed and her son’s separated?
(a) Separate rooms.
(b) A curtain.
(c) Mosquito netting.
(d) Separate buildings.

3. What does the son do to make Guy angry?
(a) Curse the mill-owners.
(b) Curse the government.
(c) Mumble.
(d) Tell a secret.

4. What does Lamort take to the guest at her grandmother’s house?
(a) A spare blanket.
(b) A set of beach towels.
(c) Afternoon tea.
(d) Needles and thread.

5. What does Lamort’s grandmother say posterity is?
(a) Telling stories.
(b) Saving pictures.
(c) Remembering.
(d) Growing up.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator tell whether her son is asleep?

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

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

4. What does one of the mothers come home with, when she visits the prison where the ‘radio six’ are kept?

5. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?

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