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

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

3. What is the girl told to throw away?
(a) Pictures of dead soldiers.
(b) Letters from her father.
(c) Tapes of the boy’s radio show.
(d) Clothes she wore to a rally.

4. What is the girl’s mother’s connection with the Massacre River?
(a) She was conceived there.
(b) She was born there.
(c) Her mother was killed there.
(d) She was raped there.

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

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

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

8. Why did Guy and Lili keep their son close to them at the sugar mill?
(a) So he would not stare at people and be called insolent.
(b) So he would not run off and be thought indigent.
(c) So he would not think that he was alone there.
(d) So he would not play with the other rough boys.

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

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

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

12. Why does the girl say she does not leave the house?
(a) Because the macoutes are always watching.
(b) Because there is too much violence in the streets.
(c) Because she cannot go anywhere.
(d) Because none of the shops are open anyway.

13. Who does the girl say is her most trusted friend at Ville Rose?
(a) Her father.
(b) The banyan tree.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her pen and paper.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the prison used for before it was a prison?

2. What do the prison guards suspect the girl’s mother of being?

3. What is the dinner table made of, in Guy and Lili’s house?

4. How many people are passengers on the boat?

5. What terrifies Lili?

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