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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 & 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the girl say her father regrets?
(a) Ever letting her go to school.
(b) Letting her marry the boy.
(c) Being mean to the boy.
(d) Keeping her from going with the boy.

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

3. How does Emilie find out whether Lamort can read?
(a) She offers her a tin of cookies.
(b) She shows her her soap packet.
(c) She gives her a magazine.
(d) She offers her a book.

4. What is the dinner table made of, in Guy and Lili’s house?
(a) Mahogany.
(b) Shipping crates.
(c) Laps—there is no table.
(d) Plywood and bricks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girl’s mother hope for the girl?

2. Whose name is no one mentioning, according to the girl?

3. What does Catherine say is the most important part of a face?

4. Whose name does Lamort say she wants to use, now?

5. Why does the boy say that no one will mistake him and the others for Cuban, now?

(see the answer key)

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