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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What prevents the girl’s family from leaving the city?
(a) Their car is broken.
(b) Gasoline ban.
(c) Their car is destroyed.
(d) Militia in the streets.

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

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

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

11. What likely happened to the boy’s boat?
(a) It was destroyed in a storm.
(b) It was captured by Haitian sailors.
(c) It arrived safely.
(d) It sank.

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

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

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

15. How does the narrator characterize the boy’s voice when he recites his lines over his father’s dead body?
(a) A woman’s tender lament.
(b) An old man’s rasp.
(c) A child’s little whimper.
(d) A man’s grieving roar.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the second narrator characterize her feeling in the first narrator’s absence?

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

3. When was the Massacre River massacre?

4. What is Guy’s hairline supposed to indicate about him?

5. What does the girl say when she finally talks to her mother?

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