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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 her mother answer?
(a) She says that all the women who went to the river can fly.
(b) She says that it is important that the daughters remember their mothers.
(c) She says that no human being can fly.
(d) She says that she will be home soon.

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

3. In the narrator’s account, who likely wrote the lines the boy is to say?
(a) A Haitian historian.
(b) Boukman himself.
(c) A sentimental European.
(d) A Haitian slave owner.

4. What does the girl’s mother hope for the girl?
(a) That she will get out of the country.
(b) That she will have someone to care for her.
(c) That she will return to the Massacre River.
(d) That she will get revenge for her sake.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the boy’s book covered, according to the narrator?

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

3. Who does the girl say is her most trusted friend at Ville Rose?

4. What does Guy promise never to do?

5. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the mood and tone of this story?

3. What is the American involvement in 1937?

4. What consolation is there for the girl after her mother dies?

5. What happens to the boy in the end of the story?

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

7. What is the history of the Massacre River?

8. What news does Guy bring home, himself?

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

10. Describe the girl’s trip to visit her mother in prison.

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