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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the song, the lyric says that the singer had to leave Haiti before what happened?
(a) He or she was killed.
(b) The old president returned.
(c) The country exploded.
(d) He or she understood it.

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

4. What does the boy almost knock over, coming to his father?
(a) Dinner.
(b) The dinner table.
(c) His books.
(d) His mother.

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

6. What does Guy ask for when he comes home?
(a) Attention.
(b) Peace.
(c) Food.
(d) Respect.

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

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

9. What does her mother answer?
(a) She says that all the women who went to the river can fly.
(b) She says that it is important that the daughters remember their mothers.
(c) She says that no human being can fly.
(d) She says that she will be home soon.

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

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

12. What terrifies Lili?
(a) Snakes and insects in the grass.
(b) Militiamen coming for them.
(c) The thought of the mill closing.
(d) The thought of her son performing.

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

14. How does the second narrator characterize her feeling in the first narrator’s absence?
(a) Irritable.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Content.
(d) Anxious.

15. What is Guy and Lili’s son called at school, on account of his hair?
(a) Pepper head.
(b) Shiny.
(c) Curly.
(d) Medusa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the narrator writing from?

2. What did Guy and Lili and their boy eat when things were tight?

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

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

5. What was the prison used for before it was a prison?

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