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

2. What miracle does Nineteen Thirty-Seven start with?
(a) A crying madonna.
(b) A man brought back to life.
(c) A healing scar.
(d) The face of Jesus.

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

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

5. What does her mother answer?
(a) She says that she will be home soon.
(b) She says that no human being can fly.
(c) She says that all the women who went to the river can fly.
(d) She says that it is important that the daughters remember their mothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize soldiers in Haiti?

2. What is Guy’s hairline supposed to indicate about him?

3. What is the girl’s last hope, in the story?

4. What does the girl take to her mother?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Guy get angry at his son?

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

7. What is the history of the Massacre River?

8. What news does Guy bring home, himself?

9. Describe the prison where the mother is kept.

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

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