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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What has the girl’s manman buried behind the house?
(a) Money.
(b) A baby.
(c) Valuables.
(d) Political buttons.

3. What does the boy almost knock over, coming to his father?
(a) His books.
(b) Dinner.
(c) The dinner table.
(d) His mother.

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

5. 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 sing.
(c) She bursts into tears.
(d) She begins to hyperventilate.

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

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

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

9. What does the girl’s mother hope for the girl?
(a) That she will get out of the country.
(b) That she will return to the Massacre River.
(c) That she will have someone to care for her.
(d) That she will get revenge for her sake.

10. Why does the boy say that no one will mistake him and the others for Cuban, now?
(a) They are all seasick.
(b) They are all so poor.
(c) They are all sunburned.
(d) They have such good equipment.

11. Where is the narrator writing from?
(a) American waters.
(b) A prison ship.
(c) A port.
(d) The ocean.

12. Who is Boukman?
(a) A rebel leader.
(b) A Haitian slave owner.
(c) An American singer.
(d) A Haitian president.

13. What likely happened to the boy’s boat?
(a) It was destroyed in a storm.
(b) It was captured by Haitian sailors.
(c) It sank.
(d) It arrived safely.

14. What color would the women wear, when they visited the Massacre River?
(a) Green.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) White.

15. What does Guy demonstrate to Lili?
(a) How he could steal the balloon.
(b) How the fence could be climbed.
(c) How the balloon flies.
(d) How he could get a job at the mill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?

2. What does her mother answer?

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

4. What prevents the girl’s family from leaving the city?

5. What does the girl take to her mother?

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