2. Where is the Massacre River?
(a) In the center of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
(b) In the mountains.
(c) On the border with Cuba.
(d) On the border with the Dominican Republic.

3. In what way does the boy surprise his father?
(a) He has already borrowed clothes.
(b) He has learned the whole history of Haiti’s slave revolt.
(c) He has already been rehearsing with his classmates.
(d) He already knows his lines.

4. What terrifies Lili?
(a) Militiamen coming for them.
(b) Snakes and insects in the grass.
(c) The thought of her son performing.
(d) The thought of the mill closing.

5. 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 living son.
(c) Her son’s body.
(d) Her son’s death warrant.

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

7. Why is the girl’s mother in prison?
(a) She was accused of stealing a baby.
(b) She was accused of bewitching a dead boy.
(c) She was accused of stealing food.
(d) She was accused of adultery.

8. What effect does the boy’s speech have on Guy and Lili?
(a) It makes them impatient.
(b) It makes them angry.
(c) It makes them sad.
(d) It makes them proud.

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

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

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

12. What does the girl say she wishes she could do?
(a) Join the army.
(b) Flee the country.
(c) Kill with magic.
(d) Flee with magic.

13. Who does Boukman see in the wall of fire that rises?
(a) The bodies of the slaveholders.
(b) The faces of the government soldiers.
(c) The bones of his ancestors.
(d) The teeth of his enemies.

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

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