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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Guy ask for when he comes home?
(a) Attention.
(b) Food.
(c) Respect.
(d) Peace.

2. How does the girl’s mother’s health change the next time she sees her?
(a) She has lost her sight.
(b) She has a cough.
(c) She has a festering wound.
(d) She has a severe pain.

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

4. What is the girl told to throw away?
(a) Pictures of dead soldiers.
(b) Tapes of the boy’s radio show.
(c) Letters from her father.
(d) Clothes she wore to a rally.

5. Who does the girl say is her most trusted friend at Ville Rose?
(a) Her mother.
(b) The banyan tree.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her pen and paper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy say he is glad his boat is not full of?

2. When was the Massacre River massacre?

3. What does the narrator compare Guy’s admiration for the hot-air balloon to?

4. How many people are passengers on the boat?

5. Where is the narrator writing from?

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