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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old are the narrators?
(a) About seventeen.
(b) About fourteen.
(c) About nineteen.
(d) About twenty-five.

2. In what way is the ocean like the boy’s love for the girl?
(a) It is changeable.
(b) It is endless.
(c) It is filled with life.
(d) It is tempestuous.

3. What does the girl say she wishes she could do?
(a) Join the army.
(b) Kill with magic.
(c) Flee with magic.
(d) Flee the country.

4. How does the narrator characterize soldiers in Haiti?
(a) Inhuman.
(b) Machine-like.
(c) Decent.
(d) Vulgar.

5. What does the girl say is the biggest weapon the government can use against the people?
(a) Propaganda.
(b) Indefinite detentions.
(c) Rape.
(d) Hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What flaw does the narrator say he has?

2. What is the girl told to throw away?

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

4. What does the girl hear when she is hiding in the latrine?

5. How does the second narrator characterize her feeling in the first narrator’s absence?

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