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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. What secret does the girl’s mother reveal to her?

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

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

4. When was the Massacre River massacre?

5. What flaw does the narrator say he has?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What news does Guy bring home, himself?

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

6. What news does Lili greet Guy with?

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

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

9. Describe the prison where the mother is kept.

10. What is the history of the Massacre River?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the most important plot points in Krik? Krak!. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate your own reading of Krik? Krak!—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

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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