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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What danger does the boy’s boat face?
(a) Bad weather.
(b) Mutiny.
(c) Pirates.
(d) Leaks.

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

3. What does the boy say he is glad his boat is not full of?
(a) Old people.
(b) Cubans.
(c) Pregnant women.
(d) Children.

4. What likely happened to the boy’s boat?
(a) It was captured by Haitian sailors.
(b) It arrived safely.
(c) It was destroyed in a storm.
(d) It sank.

5. Who does the boy dream of?
(a) The girl’s family.
(b) His childhood home.
(c) The bottom of the sea.
(d) His future wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prevents the girl’s family from leaving the city?

2. What is the girl’s last hope, in the story?

3. What happens to the girl when she gets to be with her mother?

4. What does one of the mothers come home with, when she visits the prison where the ‘radio six’ are kept?

5. How does the narrator characterize soldiers in Haiti?

(see the answer key)

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