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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the second narrator pass time in the house?
(a) Knitting.
(b) Organizing Radio Six.
(c) Singing songs.
(d) Killing cockroaches.

2. Why doesn't the female narrator's father approve of her boyfriend?
(a) He is racist.
(b) He thinks the young man is not smart.
(c) They do not have the same political views.
(d) He wants someone who can provide her with more.

3. What items does the second narrator's father want her to throw away?
(a) Her notebook.
(b) Her makeup.
(c) Her schoolbooks.
(d) Tapes of her boyfriend's radio show.

4. Who is the female narrator referring to in this sentence, "I wish he would catch a bullet so we could see how scared he really is"?
(a) Her father.
(b) Manman.
(c) Her Uncle.
(d) Her boyfriend.

5. What does the female narrator refer to the soldiers as?
(a) The authority.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Jerks.

6. What promise does the female narrator reaffirm?
(a) To keep writing, and he will keep writing as well.
(b) To avenge her lover's death.
(c) To marry someone that can take care of her.
(d) To obey her father no matter what.

7. What part of the female narrator's body shivers when she thinks of her boyfriend in danger?
(a) Her arms.
(b) Her heart.
(c) Her hair.
(d) Her skin.

8. What does the narrators father call the place they are escaping to?
(a) Children of the Sea.
(b) Civilization.
(c) Miami.
(d) The sunshine state.

9. What does the father do when the female narrator thanks him?
(a) Laughs.
(b) Moves his hand away and grunts.
(c) Cries.
(d) Gives her a hug.

10. What does the female narrator hear over the radio at the end of the story?
(a) The new president is back.
(b) Her boyfriend's voice.
(c) A boat was intercepted by the coast guard.
(d) A boat sank off the coast of the Bahamas.

11. Where did the second narrator's family hide when soldiers came to Madan Roger's house?
(a) The closet.
(b) The bedroom.
(c) The woods.
(d) The latrine.

12. What happened at the airport?
(a) The president came back and regained his power.
(b) None of the above.
(c) They arrested and/or shot people waiting for the president's return.
(d) The president was assassinated.

13. Who says, "Banyan trees are holy and sometimes if we call the gods from beneath them, they will hear our voices clearer?"
(a) The female narrator.
(b) The narrator's father.
(c) Madan Roger.
(d) Manman.

14. How does the female narrator's father prevent the her arrest?
(a) He shoots at them.
(b) He talks them out of it.
(c) He pays the soldiers off.
(d) He proves her innocence.

15. Where do the Haitian people gather to meet the president?
(a) The president's house.
(b) The airport.
(c) The capitol.
(d) The port.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say lies beyond the mountains?

3. Who says, "A banyan could become a forest if it were given a chance?"

4. Why can't the female narrator's family get out of the city?

5. Where is the female narrator's family headed?

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