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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 wary of the cost.
(c) He is proud.
(d) He is indifferent to the news.

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

5. Who does Boukman see in the wall of fire that rises?
(a) The bodies of the slaveholders.
(b) The teeth of his enemies.
(c) The faces of the government soldiers.
(d) The bones of his ancestors.

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

7. What danger does the boy’s boat face?
(a) Pirates.
(b) Mutiny.
(c) Bad weather.
(d) Leaks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What does the girl do when the mother takes the statue of the madonna from her?
(a) She begins to sing.
(b) She begins to hyperventilate.
(c) She bursts into tears.
(d) She begins to pray.

15. What secret does the girl’s mother reveal to her?
(a) How to make a bone soup.
(b) How to make the Madonna cry.
(c) How she became pregnant with her.
(d) How she escaped from the Dominican Republic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Guy promise never to do?

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

4. Whose name is no one mentioning, according to the girl?

5. What likely happened to the boy’s boat?

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