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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 & Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?
(a) All immigrants.
(b) All Haitians.
(c) All Americans.
(d) All foreign women.

2. What effect does the boy’s speech have on Guy and Lili?
(a) It makes them angry.
(b) It makes them sad.
(c) It makes them proud.
(d) It makes them impatient.

3. In the narrator’s account, who likely wrote the lines the boy is to say?
(a) A sentimental European.
(b) A Haitian slave owner.
(c) A Haitian historian.
(d) Boukman himself.

4. For how many generations has the statue of the Madonna been in the girl’s family before her?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

5. How would you characterize the narrator’s tone toward her mother, in New York Day Women?
(a) Appalled.
(b) Delighted.
(c) Bemused.
(d) Confused.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the narrator writing from?

2. Why does the narrator say that certain women destroy at night the work they do in the day?

3. Where do Guy and Lili and their boy get their water from?

4. What is the girl told to throw away?

5. What does Guy demonstrate to Lili?

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