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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 is the girl told to throw away?
(a) Pictures of dead soldiers.
(b) Clothes she wore to a rally.
(c) Tapes of the boy’s radio show.
(d) Letters from her father.

2. How does the second narrator characterize her feeling in the first narrator’s absence?
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Content.
(c) Irritable.
(d) Anxious.

3. What did people watch at the sugar mill?
(a) Government-sponsored TV.
(b) Cock fights.
(c) Dog fights.
(d) Dancing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way is the ocean like the boy’s love for the girl?

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

3. Who does the girl say is her most trusted friend at Ville Rose?

4. What miracle does Nineteen Thirty-Seven start with?

5. When was the Massacre River massacre?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Guy get angry at his son?

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

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

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

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

8. What is the significance of the hot-air balloon in A Wall of Fire Rising?

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

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

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