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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the girl narrator see this miracle as a sign of?
(a) Her looming death.
(b) Her mother’s death.
(c) Her imminent freedom.
(d) Her mother’s release.

2. What is the girl’s last hope, in the story?
(a) That the river will rise against the Dominican Republic.
(b) That a massacre will never happen again.
(c) That her mother’s flight will be joyful.
(d) That there will be revenge for the soldiers who massacred Haitians.

3. What prevents the girl’s family from leaving the city?
(a) Gasoline ban.
(b) Their car is destroyed.
(c) Their car is broken.
(d) Militia in the streets.

4. In what way does the girl recreate her visit to the Massacre River when she goes to see her mother?
(a) She goes barefoot.
(b) She shaves her head.
(c) She takes food.
(d) She takes extra clothing.

5. Why do the guards make the women dash themselves with cold water at night?
(a) To keep them from sleeping well.
(b) To keep them clean.
(c) To humiliate them.
(d) To keep wings from growing from their shoulders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What miracle does Nineteen Thirty-Seven start with?

2. Why does the girl say she does not leave the house?

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

4. Where is the narrator writing from?

5. In the song, the lyric says that the singer had to leave Haiti before what happened?

(see the answer key)

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