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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Guy promise never to do?
(a) Take their son away in the hot-air balloon.
(b) Put their son’s name on the waiting list for a job at the mill.
(c) Go to any protests against the government.
(d) Steal anything, and possibly end up in prison.

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

3. What color would the women wear, when they visited the Massacre River?
(a) Green.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

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

5. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?
(a) All foreign women.
(b) All Haitians.
(c) All Americans.
(d) All immigrants.

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

7. How old was the girl when her mother took her on a pilgrimage to the Massacre River?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Five.
(d) Eight.

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

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

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

11. What has the girl’s manman buried behind the house?
(a) Valuables.
(b) Money.
(c) Political buttons.
(d) A baby.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the boy’s book covered, according to the narrator?

2. How old are the narrators?

3. Why is the girl’s mother in prison?

4. What is the girl’s mother’s connection with the Massacre River?

5. What danger does the boy’s boat face?

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