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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the boy say he is glad his boat is not full of?
(a) Old people.
(b) Children.
(c) Cubans.
(d) Pregnant women.

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

3. Where does the girl visit her mother?
(a) At her parents’ house.
(b) In prison.
(c) At home.
(d) At the cemetery.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lili want to know is in Guy’s dreams?

2. Who are the macoutes?

3. Who are the Assads?

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

5. What does the girl hear when she is hiding in the latrine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the importance of Boukman’s speech in A Wall of Fire Rising?

2. Describe the girl’s trip to visit her mother in prison.

3. What is it like in Haiti where the girl remains after the boy’s departure?

4. What news does Lili greet Guy with?

5. What is the history of the Madonna the girl carries?

6. What is it like on the ship the boy is sailing in?

7. What news does Guy bring home, himself?

8. What consolation is there for the girl after her mother dies?

9. What is the history of the Massacre River?

10. What happens when the soldiers come for the girl’s neighbor?

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