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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (pages 225 - 269).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What new barrier to their emigration do Danticat and Bob encounter during their six months of medical treatment in 1980?
(a) The United States bars all immigrants from Haiti.
(b) Mira loses his job, which he needs in order to be able to bring his children to the U.S.
(c) The Haitian government forbids anyone to emigrate.
(d) Danticat gets another illness.

2. What are Papa Doc's militia men called?
(a) Martyrs.
(b) Bel Airs.
(c) Foot Soldiers.
(d) Macoutes.

3. What does Tante Denise do right before Danticat and Bob leave for the United States?
(a) Blesses them with holy water.
(b) Gives them each letters for every day of the year they will be gone.
(c) Kisses them and runs into her room, unable to bear watching them leave.
(d) Packs food for them to take on the airplane.

4. Who is Maxo's son?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Stephan.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Nick.

5. What is the name of the officer who took down all of Joseph's information for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol?
(a) Officer Smith.
(b) Officer Sandrine.
(c) Officer Zero.
(d) Officer Reyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Aristide leave office less than a year after being sworn in in 1991?

2. Where does an immigration agent tell Danticat that Joseph and Maxo were taken to in the fall of 2004 upon their arrival in the United States?

3. Who is the baby Danticat's mother brings to Haiti with her in 1976?

4. Who took Joseph and Maxo to the airport in Haiti in the fall of 2004?

5. Where is Joseph's funeral eventually held?

(see the answer key)

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