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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is the girl’s mother in prison?
(a) She was accused of bewitching a dead boy.
(b) She was accused of adultery.
(c) She was accused of stealing food.
(d) She was accused of stealing a baby.

3. Why does the boy say that no one will mistake him and the others for Cuban, now?
(a) They are all seasick.
(b) They have such good equipment.
(c) They are all so poor.
(d) They are all sunburned.

4. What is Guy’s hairline supposed to indicate about him?
(a) That he will be wealthy.
(b) That he is not indigenous.
(c) That he is lucky.
(d) That his life will be troubled.

5. What does Lili want to know is in Guy’s dreams?
(a) A better future for the boy.
(b) A more peaceful life.
(c) Revenge for the government soldiers.
(d) Her and the boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Guy and Lili’s son called at school, on account of his hair?

2. For how many generations has the statue of the Madonna been in the girl’s family before her?

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

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

5. Why do the guards make the women dash themselves with cold water at night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What news does Lili greet Guy with?

2. Describe the girl’s pilgrimage to the Massacre River.

3. Why is the boy fleeing from Haiti?

4. What is the significance of the sugar mill, in the day and at night?

5. Why does Lili leave Guy’s eyes open at the end of A Wall of Fire Rising?

6. What is it like on the ship the boy is sailing in?

7. What is the American involvement in 1937?

8. What is the history of the Massacre River?

9. Describe the prison where the mother is kept.

10. What happens to the pregnant girl on the ship?

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