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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 is the only thing on Boukman’s mind?
(a) Supper.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Power.

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

3. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?
(a) All Americans.
(b) All foreign women.
(c) All immigrants.
(d) All Haitians.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the son do to make Guy angry?

2. For how many generations has the statue of the Madonna been in the girl’s family before her?

3. Why do the guards make the women dash themselves with cold water at night?

4. What is Guy’s first response to the news that their son will be in a play?

5. What terrifies Lili?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the pregnant girl on the ship?

2. What is the history of the Massacre River?

3. Why does Guy get angry at his son?

4. Describe the prison where the mother is kept.

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

6. What is the American involvement in 1937?

7. What happens to the boy in the end of the story?

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

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

10. What news does Lili greet Guy with?

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