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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. For how many generations has the statue of the Madonna been in the girl’s family before her?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

2. What does he get instead?
(a) Food.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Respect.
(d) News.

3. Whose name is no one mentioning, according to the girl?
(a) The old president’s.
(b) Hers.
(c) The boy's.
(d) Her father's.

4. What is Guy’s first response to the news that their son will be in a play?
(a) He is proud.
(b) He is irritated by the trouble.
(c) He is wary of the cost.
(d) He is indifferent to the news.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What miracle does Nineteen Thirty-Seven start with?

2. How old are the narrators?

3. How is the boy’s book covered, according to the narrator?

4. How does the second narrator characterize her feeling in the first narrator’s absence?

5. In the narrator’s account, who likely wrote the lines the boy is to say?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the history of the Madonna the girl carries?

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

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

4. Why is the boy fleeing from Haiti?

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

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

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

8. What is the American involvement in 1937?

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

10. Describe the prison where the mother is kept.

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