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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How old are the narrators?
(a) About twenty-five.
(b) About fourteen.
(c) About nineteen.
(d) About seventeen.

4. What does the girl hear when she is hiding in the latrine?
(a) Soldiers beating her neighbor.
(b) Soldiers searching her house.
(c) Soldiers beating her mother.
(d) Soldiers shooting at a sniper.

5. How many people are passengers on the boat?
(a) 37.
(b) 9.
(c) 18.
(d) 24.

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

7. 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 takes extra clothing.
(c) She goes barefoot.
(d) She takes food.

8. What is the dinner table made of, in Guy and Lili’s house?
(a) Plywood and bricks.
(b) Laps—there is no table.
(c) Mahogany.
(d) Shipping crates.

9. What does Guy ask for when he comes home?
(a) Respect.
(b) Attention.
(c) Food.
(d) Peace.

10. Where do Guy and Lili and their boy get their water from?
(a) The well.
(b) The reservoir.
(c) The faucet.
(d) The rain.

11. In what way is the ocean like the boy’s love for the girl?
(a) It is endless.
(b) It is changeable.
(c) It is tempestuous.
(d) It is filled with life.

12. In the song, the lyric says that the singer had to leave Haiti before what happened?
(a) He or she understood it.
(b) He or she was killed.
(c) The old president returned.
(d) The country exploded.

13. Whose baby does the girl give birth to on the boat?
(a) Her father’s.
(b) Her brother’s.
(c) Haitian soldiers’.
(d) Her husband’s.

14. What does the narrator compare Guy’s admiration for the hot-air balloon to?
(a) Men’s admiration for fast cars.
(b) Men’s admiration for the trappings of power.
(c) Men’s admiration for powerful machinery.
(d) Men’s admiration for young women.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girl take to her mother?

2. When was the Massacre River massacre?

3. What likely happened to the boy’s boat?

4. What did people watch at the sugar mill?

5. Whose name is no one mentioning, according to the girl?

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