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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 girl’s mother hope for the girl?
(a) That she will return to the Massacre River.
(b) That she will get revenge for her sake.
(c) That she will get out of the country.
(d) That she will have someone to care for her.

2. 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.

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

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

5. In the narrator’s account, who likely wrote the lines the boy is to say?
(a) A sentimental European.
(b) A Haitian historian.
(c) Boukman himself.
(d) A Haitian slave owner.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the boy’s voice when he recites his lines over his father’s dead body?

2. Why did Guy and Lili keep their son close to them at the sugar mill?

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

4. How many people are passengers on the boat?

5. What has the girl’s manman buried behind the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the girl’s pilgrimage to the Massacre River.

2. What news does Lili greet Guy with?

3. Why does Lili leave Guy’s eyes open at the end of A Wall of Fire Rising?

4. What is the American involvement in 1937?

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

6. What are the mood and tone of this story?

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

8. Describe the circumstances in which Guy and Lili live.

9. How does the boy in Children of the Sea describe his love for the girl?

10. Why is the boy fleeing from Haiti?

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