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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 indifferent to the news.
(b) He is wary of the cost.
(c) He is proud.
(d) He is irritated by the trouble.

2. How many people are passengers on the boat?
(a) 37.
(b) 18.
(c) 9.
(d) 24.

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) Her and the boy.
(d) A more peaceful life.

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

5. What does he get instead?
(a) Respect.
(b) Food.
(c) News.
(d) Indifference.

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

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

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

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

10. How old are the narrators?
(a) About fourteen.
(b) About seventeen.
(c) About twenty-five.
(d) About nineteen.

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

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

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

14. Who tells the girl that her mother has died?
(a) A woman who has been to the river with them.
(b) A woman who had been in prison with her mother.
(c) A guard from the prison.
(d) A woman whose mother had also given birth in he Massacre River.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dinner table made of, in Guy and Lili’s house?

2. Who does the girl say is her most trusted friend at Ville Rose?

3. What does her mother answer?

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

5. In what way does the boy surprise his father?

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