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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 the narrator compare Guy’s admiration for the hot-air balloon to?
(a) Men’s admiration for powerful machinery.
(b) Men’s admiration for fast cars.
(c) Men’s admiration for young women.
(d) Men’s admiration for the trappings of power.

2. How old was the girl when her mother took her on a pilgrimage to the Massacre River?
(a) Eight.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Five.
(d) Twelve.

3. Why do the guards make the women dash themselves with cold water at night?
(a) To keep them clean.
(b) To keep wings from growing from their shoulders.
(c) To keep them from sleeping well.
(d) To humiliate them.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did people watch at the sugar mill?

3. What do the prison guards suspect the girl’s mother of being?

4. Who is the first narrator of Children of the Sea?

5. When was the Massacre River massacre?

Short Essay Questions

1. What news does Lili greet Guy with?

2. What happens when the soldiers come for the girl’s neighbor?

3. Why is the boy fleeing from Haiti?

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

5. Why does Guy get angry at his son?

6. What is the American involvement in 1937?

7. Describe the prison where the mother is kept.

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

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

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

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