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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 & 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect does the boy’s speech have on Guy and Lili?
(a) It makes them impatient.
(b) It makes them sad.
(c) It makes them proud.
(d) It makes them angry.

2. Who is the first narrator of Children of the Sea?
(a) A father.
(b) A sailor.
(c) A lover.
(d) A farmer.

3. What happens to the girl when she gets to be with her mother?
(a) She gets dizzy.
(b) She forgets her name.
(c) She panics.
(d) She goes mute.

4. In the song, the lyric says that the singer had to leave Haiti before what happened?
(a) He or she understood it.
(b) He or she was killed.
(c) The country exploded.
(d) The old president returned.

5. How does the narrator tell whether her son is asleep?
(a) She scratches his head.
(b) She eats his favorite foods.
(c) She strokes his cheek with her lips.
(d) She calls his names softly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator’s relationship, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias, with the women in the earlier stories?

2. Why does the narrator’s roof still have holes in it?

3. How old are the narrators?

4. Where is the Massacre River?

5. What does the girl say when she finally talks to her mother?

(see the answer key)

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