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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Guy’s first response to the news that their son will be in a play?
(a) He is irritated by the trouble.
(b) He is indifferent to the news.
(c) He is wary of the cost.
(d) He is proud.

2. Who does the boy dream of?
(a) His future wife.
(b) His childhood home.
(c) The bottom of the sea.
(d) The girl’s family.

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

4. What news does Guy finally tell his wife?
(a) That he was hired full-time.
(b) That he was fired.
(c) That he got work for the next day.
(d) That he was promoted.

5. How does the girl know the person who tells her that her mother has died?
(a) The person carries a letter from the mother.
(b) The person knows the password.
(c) They play the questioning game.
(d) The person has a piece of her mother’s clothing.

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

7. What does the girl hear when she is hiding in the latrine?
(a) Soldiers beating her neighbor.
(b) Soldiers shooting at a sniper.
(c) Soldiers searching her house.
(d) Soldiers beating her mother.

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

9. What miracle does Nineteen Thirty-Seven start with?
(a) The face of Jesus.
(b) A crying madonna.
(c) A healing scar.
(d) A man brought back to life.

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

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

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

13. How does the narrator characterize soldiers in Haiti?
(a) Machine-like.
(b) Inhuman.
(c) Vulgar.
(d) Decent.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the song, the lyric says that the singer had to leave Haiti before what happened?

2. Who is Boukman?

3. What has the girl’s manman buried behind the house?

4. What do the prison guards suspect the girl’s mother of being?

5. What does the boy say is the only thing on Boukman’s mind?

(see the answer keys)

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