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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the gender of the first narrator?
(a) Male.
(b) Transgender.
(c) It does not say.
(d) Female.

2. How old is the male narrator?
(a) Around nineteen or twenty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) It does not say.
(d) Fifteen.

3. What is used as the sail of the boat?
(a) They have no sail.
(b) Shirts sewn together.
(c) Sheets.
(d) Tarps.

4. What is odd about Celianne's baby?
(a) It screams constantly.
(b) It has no hair.
(c) Celianne did not have a baby.
(d) It does not cry.

5. How are Haitians treated in the Bahamas?
(a) "Like royalty."
(b) "Like dogs."
(c) "Like slaves."
(d) "Like prisoners."

6. Why doesn't Celianne's baby cry?
(a) Because it is stillborn.
(b) Because it is a good baby.
(c) Because Celianne throws it overboard after she delivers.
(d) Because the passengers take turns rocking it to sleep.

7. How many holes does the first narrator mention the passengers patching up?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

8. What does the first narrator say is the predominant religion of the others on board?
(a) They are not religious.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Protestant.
(d) Voodoo.

9. What does the first narrator do when Celianne goes into labor?
(a) Moves to the other end of the boat.
(b) Helps her deliver the baby.
(c) Asks if anyone on the boat is a doctor.
(d) Keeps bailing water out so the boat doesn't sink.

10. Why won't Celianne let go of her baby?
(a) She will start crying otherwise.
(b) The baby is all she has.
(c) No one will hold the baby for her.
(d) Celianne does not have a baby.

11. Who said, "Maybe it's like you've always said. I imagine too much?"
(a) Agwe.
(b) The second narrator.
(c) Celianne.
(d) The first narrator.

12. How many other people are on the boat?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Thirty-six.
(c) Five.
(d) One hundred.

13. What does the male narrator say are the only newborn babies he has ever seen?
(a) Celianne's baby.
(b) Puppies.
(c) Kittens.
(d) Baby mice.

14. Where are the people on the boat sailing towards?
(a) The Bahamas.
(b) The United States.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Haiti.

15. What is the male narrator afraid might attract sharks?
(a) Throwing the dead baby in the water.
(b) Singing songs.
(c) Throwing possessions overboard.
(d) Applying tar to patch holes in the boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name given to the Radio group the male narrator belonged to?

2. Why does Cèlianne wake up screaming the first time?

3. What does the first narrator say lies beyond the mountains?

4. What spirit does the male narrator say he has to throw his remaining possessions over to?

5. Who is the father of Celianne's baby?

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