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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) Shoddily.
(b) Roughly.
(c) Carefully.
(d) Meticulously.

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

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

4. What was the prison used for before it was a prison?
(a) A country house.
(b) A castle.
(c) A slave auction house.
(d) An American fort.

5. What did people watch at the sugar mill?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Cock fights.
(c) Government-sponsored TV.
(d) Dog fights.

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

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

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

9. Where do Guy and Lili and their boy get their water from?
(a) The rain.
(b) The well.
(c) The reservoir.
(d) The faucet.

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

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

12. What danger does the boy’s boat face?
(a) Pirates.
(b) Leaks.
(c) Bad weather.
(d) Mutiny.

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

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

15. What does the girl do when the mother takes the statue of the madonna from her?
(a) She begins to hyperventilate.
(b) She bursts into tears.
(c) She begins to pray.
(d) She begins to sing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Guy’s first response to the news that their son will be in a play?

2. What terrifies Lili?

3. What does the boy say he is glad his boat is not full of?

4. Why does the boy say that no one will mistake him and the others for Cuban, now?

5. How old was the girl when her mother took her on a pilgrimage to the Massacre River?

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