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  • What is the name of the narrator’s group of people and where did the strangers come from?
    The narrator people were the Taino. The strangers came from Spain.
  • What did the narrator think the great-sailed canoes look like?
    the birds from his dream
  • Why did the narrator tell his chief not to welcome the strangers in the canoes?
    The narrator thought his dream is a warning.
  • Why didn't the narrator's people listen to him even after he bled?
    Because they desired all that the strangers had brought.
  • Choose two sentences that tell what happened to make the narrator worry about the strangers again
    Suddenly, I remembered my dream and stared at each of the strangers in turn. Even those with dark human eyes … from fire.
  • What were the colors that covered the strangers’ bodies?
    Clothes
  • Why did the chiefs give the strangers parrots?
    Because it’s his little joke about the fact that the strangers’ clothes made them look like parrots.
  • What did the narrator ask his Zemis to do?
    To let something happen to him to show his people what they should know
  • Why didn’t anyone listen to the narrator not to welcome strangers?
    Because the narrator was still a child.
  • What is “a thin, dark line stretched between sky and sea?
    It is the horizon.
  • Why was the narrator not afraid for a while?
    Because the strangers were friendly so he forgot about his dreams.
  • What happened to the narrator after his wish to his zemis?
    The stick of the stranger bit his palm so hard that he bled.
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