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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What flaw does the narrator say he has?
(a) He imagines his death too easily.
(b) He cannot imagine the future.
(c) His imagination is frail.
(d) He imagines too much.

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

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

10. What does the boy say is the only thing on Boukman’s mind?
(a) Power.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Supper.

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

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

13. Why do the guards make the women dash themselves with cold water at night?
(a) To keep wings from growing from their shoulders.
(b) To humiliate them.
(c) To keep them clean.
(d) To keep them from sleeping well.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the girl narrator see this miracle as a sign of?

3. How does the girl know the person who tells her that her mother has died?

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

5. How old are the narrators?

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