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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the boy’s book covered, according to the narrator?
(a) Meticulously.
(b) Shoddily.
(c) Carefully.
(d) Roughly.

2. What is Guy and Lili’s son called at school, on account of his hair?
(a) Pepper head.
(b) Curly.
(c) Medusa.
(d) Shiny.

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

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

5. What news does Guy finally tell his wife?
(a) That he got work for the next day.
(b) That he was fired.
(c) That he was hired full-time.
(d) That he was promoted.

6. What does the girl say her father regrets?
(a) Letting her marry the boy.
(b) Keeping her from going with the boy.
(c) Being mean to the boy.
(d) Ever letting her go to school.

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

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

9. What does the girl say is the biggest weapon the government can use against the people?
(a) Hope.
(b) Indefinite detentions.
(c) Rape.
(d) Propaganda.

10. What does the girl take to her mother?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Paper.
(c) Food.
(d) Newspapers.

11. How does the girl’s mother’s health change the next time she sees her?
(a) She has a festering wound.
(b) She has lost her sight.
(c) She has a severe pain.
(d) She has a cough.

12. What does Lili want to know is in Guy’s dreams?
(a) Revenge for the government soldiers.
(b) A more peaceful life.
(c) Her and the boy.
(d) A better future for the boy.

13. How does the narrator characterize the boy’s voice when he recites his lines over his father’s dead body?
(a) A child’s little whimper.
(b) A woman’s tender lament.
(c) A man’s grieving roar.
(d) An old man’s rasp.

14. Who is the first narrator of Children of the Sea?
(a) A father.
(b) A lover.
(c) A sailor.
(d) A farmer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the girl’s mother’s connection with the Massacre River?

2. What does he get instead?

3. In what way does the girl recreate her visit to the Massacre River when she goes to see her mother?

4. What does the girl hear when she is hiding in the latrine?

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

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