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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What danger does the boy’s boat face?
(a) Leaks.
(b) Pirates.
(c) Bad weather.
(d) Mutiny.

3. What promise does Catherine make to Princesse?
(a) Never to let anyone see her paintings of her.
(b) To sell the paintings for good money in Paris.
(c) To share the money she gets for the paintings.
(d) Not to let anyone in Haiti see her paintings of her.

4. What does the girl do when the mother takes the statue of the madonna from her?
(a) She begins to sing.
(b) She begins to hyperventilate.
(c) She begins to pray.
(d) She bursts into tears.

5. What line is repeated several times in the epilogue?
(a) You have nobody, nothing but this piece of paper.
(b) Writers don’t leave any mark on the world.
(c) You look a lot like your grandmother.
(d) Most women had their heads down.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the boy almost knock over, coming to his father?

3. In the narrator’s account, who likely wrote the lines the boy is to say?

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

5. What does Mrs. Azile want for Caroline?

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