2. What does the girl narrator see this miracle as a sign of?
(a) Her looming death.
(b) Her mother’s release.
(c) Her mother’s death.
(d) Her imminent freedom.

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

4. Who are the Assads?
(a) The foremen at the mill.
(b) Mill workers.
(c) Owners of the sugar mill.
(d) Merchants near the sugar mill.

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

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

7. What does the girl say when she finally talks to her mother?
(a) She asks when she will be home.
(b) She tells her mother she loves her.
(c) She asks whether her mother flew.
(d) She asks why she took her to Massacre River.

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

9. How long does the girl’s mother make her food last, in prison?
(a) Hours.
(b) Months.
(c) Days.
(d) Weeks.

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

11. What does Guy demonstrate to Lili?
(a) How he could steal the balloon.
(b) How the balloon flies.
(c) How he could get a job at the mill.
(d) How the fence could be climbed.

12. Whose name is no one mentioning, according to the girl?
(a) Hers.
(b) The boy's.
(c) The old president’s.
(d) Her father's.

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 man’s grieving roar.
(c) A woman’s tender lament.
(d) An old man’s rasp.

14. What is the girl’s last hope, in the story?
(a) That there will be revenge for the soldiers who massacred Haitians.
(b) That a massacre will never happen again.
(c) That her mother’s flight will be joyful.
(d) That the river will rise against the Dominican Republic.

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