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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Joseph's profession?
2. In the story about the woman who stopped bleeding, who transforms the woman?
3. What does Atie say she sometimes writes?
4. What does Joseph ask Sophie when he comes home from touring the second time?
5. How is chagrin treated?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Book 3, Chapter 26, Sophie overhears her mother and grandmother talking. What are they talking about and what happens after the conversation?
2. What does Sophie think about when she looks at a picture of her and Joseph on their wedding day?
3. Sophie and her mother talk about their health in the plane on the way back to the United States. What starts the conversation and what do they say?
4. What happens in when Sophie comes home after talking to her therapist about her mother in Chapter 35?
5. Sophie calls her mother back when she gets home from dinner. What does Sophie's mother tell her?
6. Describe the events surrounding the Mother's Day card Sophie intends to give her Aunt Atie.
7. What does Sophie see after she bathes and changes the baby?
8. Pictures play an important role in Chapter 19. Why does Sophie want to take a picture of her grandmother and how does her grandmother react?
9. What did Atie and her sister Martine do in Port-au-Prince when they were young?
10. What does Sophie's room in Brooklyn look like?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Female characters are a big theme in the book. In the third book, a new female character, Brigitte, gets introduced. What is her role through the rest of the book? What is her liaison to the other female characters? Where is her importance displayed in the book?
Essay Topic 2
Sophie's life changes drastaically when she moves to New York and lives with her mother. Describe in your own words what Sophie does when she first gets to the States. How does she adapt? Who does she meet? How does she feel?
Essay Topic 3
The four main characters in "Breath, Eyes, Memory" are Sophie, her mother, her grandmother, and her aunt. They represent females of different generations in the same family. Compare and contrast the relationships between these four women and describe how these relationships develop over the course of the book.
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