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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 one of the mothers come home with, when she visits the prison where the ‘radio six’ are kept?
(a) Her living son.
(b) Her son’s death warrant.
(c) Her son’s body.
(d) Her son’s head.

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

3. What does Guy demonstrate to Lili?
(a) How he could steal the balloon.
(b) How the fence could be climbed.
(c) How he could get a job at the mill.
(d) How the balloon flies.

4. What does the girl narrator see this miracle as a sign of?
(a) Her imminent freedom.
(b) Her mother’s release.
(c) Her looming death.
(d) Her mother’s death.

5. In the song, the lyric says that the singer had to leave Haiti before what happened?
(a) He or she was killed.
(b) The old president returned.
(c) He or she understood it.
(d) The country exploded.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the boy say that no one will mistake him and the others for Cuban, now?

2. How does the girl know the person who tells her that her mother has died?

3. What prevents the girl’s family from leaving the city?

4. How does the narrator characterize the boy’s voice when he recites his lines over his father’s dead body?

5. What was the prison used for before it was a prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the prison where the mother is kept.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What news does Lili greet Guy with?

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

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

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

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