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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the narrator’s account, who likely wrote the lines the boy is to say?
(a) A Haitian slave owner.
(b) A Haitian historian.
(c) A sentimental European.
(d) Boukman himself.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does one of the mothers come home with, when she visits the prison where the ‘radio six’ are kept?
(a) Her son’s head.
(b) Her son’s death warrant.
(c) Her living son.
(d) Her son’s body.

8. What does the boy say he is glad his boat is not full of?
(a) Cubans.
(b) Old people.
(c) Children.
(d) Pregnant women.

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

10. What prevents the girl’s family from leaving the city?
(a) Militia in the streets.
(b) Gasoline ban.
(c) Their car is broken.
(d) Their car is destroyed.

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

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

13. Where does the girl visit her mother?
(a) At home.
(b) At the cemetery.
(c) At her parents’ house.
(d) In prison.

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

15. What happens to the girl when she gets to be with her mother?
(a) She goes mute.
(b) She gets dizzy.
(c) She forgets her name.
(d) She panics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Guy promise never to do?

2. What color would the women wear, when they visited the Massacre River?

3. In what way is the ocean like the boy’s love for the girl?

4. Why is the girl’s mother in prison?

5. What terrifies Lili?

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