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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. Where does Sophie retrieve her daughter after noticing the statue of Erzulie?

2. Where at her grandmother's house does Sophie drop her suitcase?

3. Where does Sophie bathe in Chapter 16?

4. What is Atie doing in the yard later that night when she comes home?

5. What does Atie ask Sophie and her mother to do after the family sees the package?

Short Essay Questions

1. After the argument between the Macoute and the coal vendor, what does Sophie's grandmother tell Sophie about aunt Atie's recent behavior?

2. What name does Sophie make up for her boyfriend and how does her mother react?

3. What happens the night Joseph comes home from touring and takes Sophie out to the Note?

4. Sophie talks for the first time about her mother in the conversation with her therapist. What does Sophie say about her mother?

5. What does Sophie initially talk about with her therapist in Chapter 32?

6. What does Sophie's therapist tell Sophie after she explains her mother's condition?

7. What does Atie do instead of going to Louise's house one night now that Sophie's mother is in town?

8. What does Sophie see after she bathes and changes the baby?

9. 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?

10. What do Louise and Sophie talk about when Sophie gets out of the van and sees Louise?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Storytelling is important in "Breath, Eyes, Memory." Who tells most of these stories? What do they represent and why are they told? How do they further the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the relationship between Sophie's mother Martine and Sophie's aunt Atie. We read about them while they were young and when they meet in Haiti. They talk about each other to Sophie. What is important to them? What do they talk about to Sophie and to each other?

Essay Topic 3

Talk about the relationship between Sophie and her mother and how it changes over the course of the book. Compare their relationship through the four books. Do you think both women came to terms with each other? Why do you think that?

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