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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does he get instead?

3. What does her mother answer?

4. How long does the girl’s mother make her food last, in prison?

5. Who does Boukman see in the wall of fire that rises?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Lili leave Guy’s eyes open at the end of A Wall of Fire Rising?

3. What news does Lili greet Guy with?

4. What is the American involvement in 1937?

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

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

7. What is the significance of the sugar mill, in the day and at night?

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

9. What is the history of the Massacre River?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the importance of dead children in Krik? Krak!? How do children die, and what does their death mean—to the characters and also to the author, and the story that is told through the stories?

Essay Topic 2

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

Essay Topic 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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