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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. In what way does the boy surprise his father?
(a) He has already borrowed clothes.
(b) He has already been rehearsing with his classmates.
(c) He already knows his lines.
(d) He has learned the whole history of Haiti’s slave revolt.

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

3. What does Lili want to know is in Guy’s dreams?
(a) A more peaceful life.
(b) A better future for the boy.
(c) Her and the boy.
(d) Revenge for the government soldiers.

4. Who are the macoutes?
(a) Local militia.
(b) Elite soldiers.
(c) Secret police.
(d) Local thugs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one of the mothers come home with, when she visits the prison where the ‘radio six’ are kept?

2. What terrifies Lili?

3. In what way does the girl recreate her visit to the Massacre River when she goes to see her mother?

4. What does the girl say when she finally talks to her mother?

5. Who does the boy dream of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Guy get angry at his son?

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

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

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

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

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