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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. Where is the narrator writing from?
(a) The ocean.
(b) A prison ship.
(c) A port.
(d) American waters.

2. 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 tells her mother she loves her.
(d) She asks whether her mother flew.

3. What does the girl say she wishes she could do?
(a) Flee the country.
(b) Flee with magic.
(c) Kill with magic.
(d) Join the army.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What terrifies Lili?

2. What secret does the girl’s mother reveal to her?

3. Whose baby does the girl give birth to on the boat?

4. How is the boy’s book covered, according to the narrator?

5. What effect does the boy’s speech have on Guy and Lili?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the history of the Massacre River?

3. What news does Guy bring home, himself?

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

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

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

7. Why is the boy fleeing from Haiti?

8. Why does Guy get angry at his son?

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

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

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