2. Who said, "Gossip spreads here like everywhere else"?
(a) The old man.
(b) The male narrator.
(c) Celianne.
(d) A woman on the boat.

3. What appears after the female narrator thanks her father?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A bright butterly.
(c) A raven.
(d) A black butterfly.

4. Why does the female narrator tell her father that she loves her boyfriend?
(a) Because she already married him.
(b) Because he thinks it will make him happy.
(c) Because she wants her father's permission to marry him.
(d) Because she wants him to know she loved someone other than her parents.

5. What is the setting the second narrator is in?
(a) Miami.
(b) A boat at sea.
(c) The Bahamas.
(d) Haiti.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "He was going to make a good man, that boy. Sharp like a needle point, that boy, he took the university exams a year before everyone else in this area?"

2. Where does the radio pick up a broadcast from?

3. What does the narrator's father do the day the family leaves the city?

4. What does the female narrator say the mountains are doing?

5. What does the female narrator do when she sees the black butterfly?

(see the answer key)

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