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

2. What is the dinner table made of, in Guy and Lili’s house?
(a) Mahogany.
(b) Laps—there is no table.
(c) Shipping crates.
(d) Plywood and bricks.

3. What is Guy’s hairline supposed to indicate about him?
(a) That he is lucky.
(b) That he will be wealthy.
(c) That his life will be troubled.
(d) That he is not indigenous.

4. Who are the Assads?
(a) Merchants near the sugar mill.
(b) The foremen at the mill.
(c) Mill workers.
(d) Owners of the sugar mill.

5. What is the girl’s mother’s connection with the Massacre River?
(a) She was conceived there.
(b) She was born there.
(c) She was raped there.
(d) Her mother was killed there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does he get instead?

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

3. What does the girl’s mother hope for the girl?

4. Who tells the girl that her mother has died?

5. How does the narrator characterize soldiers in Haiti?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the American involvement in 1937?

2. What news does Guy bring home, himself?

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

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

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

6. What is the history of the Massacre River?

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

8. Describe the prison where the mother is kept.

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

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

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