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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 & Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the boy say is the only thing on Boukman’s mind?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Power.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Supper.

2. Whose name does Lamort say she wants to use, now?
(a) Emilie’s mother’s.
(b) Emilie’s.
(c) Her mother’s.
(d) Her grandmother’s.

3. Whose funeral do Grace and her mother go to?
(a) A neighbor’s mother.
(b) The women who died in the Massacre River.
(c) A Haitian refugee.
(d) Mrs. Azile’s mother.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the boy dream of?

2. What is the narrator’s relationship, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias, with the women in the earlier stories?

3. What does the son do to make Guy angry?

4. Who comes to the narrator on Tuesdays and Saturdays?

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

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