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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?
(a) All Haitians.
(b) All foreign women.
(c) All Americans.
(d) All immigrants.

2. Why does the girl say she does not leave the house?
(a) Because the macoutes are always watching.
(b) Because none of the shops are open anyway.
(c) Because she cannot go anywhere.
(d) Because there is too much violence in the streets.

3. For how many generations has the statue of the Madonna been in the girl’s family before her?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

4. What do the prison guards suspect the girl’s mother of being?
(a) A witch.
(b) A spy.
(c) A terrorist.
(d) A provocateur.

5. What effect does the boy’s speech have on Guy and Lili?
(a) It makes them impatient.
(b) It makes them angry.
(c) It makes them proud.
(d) It makes them sad.

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

7. What is Guy and Lili’s son called at school, on account of his hair?
(a) Pepper head.
(b) Shiny.
(c) Curly.
(d) Medusa.

8. How many people are passengers on the boat?
(a) 24.
(b) 18.
(c) 9.
(d) 37.

9. What is Guy’s first response to the news that their son will be in a play?
(a) He is wary of the cost.
(b) He is irritated by the trouble.
(c) He is proud.
(d) He is indifferent to the news.

10. How old was the girl when her mother took her on a pilgrimage to the Massacre River?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Eight.
(d) Five.

11. What flaw does the narrator say he has?
(a) He imagines too much.
(b) He imagines his death too easily.
(c) He cannot imagine the future.
(d) His imagination is frail.

12. In the song, the lyric says that the singer had to leave Haiti before what happened?
(a) He or she understood it.
(b) The country exploded.
(c) The old president returned.
(d) He or she was killed.

13. When was the Massacre River massacre?
(a) August, 1954.
(b) April, 1931.
(c) November, 1937.
(d) September, 1918.

14. How long does the girl’s mother make her food last, in prison?
(a) Hours.
(b) Days.
(c) Weeks.
(d) Months.

15. Who does Boukman see in the wall of fire that rises?
(a) The faces of the government soldiers.
(b) The bones of his ancestors.
(c) The bodies of the slaveholders.
(d) The teeth of his enemies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Guy and Lili and their boy eat when things were tight?

2. What does the girl take to her mother?

3. How does the narrator characterize soldiers in Haiti?

4. Why is the girl’s mother in prison?

5. Who are the macoutes?

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