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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Danticat's father give her on her second day in the United States?
(a) A phone.
(b) A fountain pen.
(c) A typewriter.
(d) A notebook.

2. What do some of the young men of the neighborhood demand of Joseph to make amends for what they think are his crimes?
(a) They demand all the drugs and medical supplies he has.
(b) They demand exorbitant amounts of money to cover the funeral costs of the neighbors who were shot by the riot police and UN soldiers.
(c) They demand that he pray for them.
(d) They demand that he smuggle them out of the country.

3. Why does Joseph tell Danticat he and Tante Denise will not choose to leave Haiti despite all the violence in the early 1990s?
(a) Someone has to stay behind to receive letters and greet visiting family.
(b) He thinks he may run for office one day.
(c) He is too old and ill to leave and start over.
(d) He can not leave the graves of his parents.

4. Why was there no wake for Tante Denise?
(a) Denise had to be buried too quickly for a wake.
(b) Joseph was too sad to hold a wake for Denise.
(c) Joseph feared the gangs in the neighborhood might storm the house during a wake.
(d) Wakes are not part of Haitian culture.

5. What does Joseph tell Mira that science is God's way of shielding?
(a) Magic.
(b) Progress.
(c) Miracles.
(d) Good will.

6. Which of Danticat's brothers immediately hugs her when she arrives in the United States at the family's apartment?
(a) Nick.
(b) Kelly.
(c) Karl.
(d) Bob.

7. What does the giant velvet painting in Danticat's childhood apartment depict?
(a) The Last Supper.
(b) The Crucifixtion.
(c) George Washington and the cherry tree.
(d) The French Rvolution.

8. Why does Joseph come to New York in the summer of 1983?
(a) To immigrate there permanently.
(b) To take Danticat back to Haiti with him.
(c) For a religious visit.
(d) For a medical checkup.

9. What does Leone, Tante Denise's sister, say about the shooting outside Denise's funeral?
(a) Leone says the shooting was disrespectful.
(b) Leone wonders why there was shooting since Denise was neither in the military or the police force.
(c) Leone says the shooting is proof the neighborhood is unsafe now.
(d) Leone says Denise would have been horrified at the shooting.

10. Who took Joseph and Maxo to the airport in Haiti in the fall of 2004?
(a) Ferna.
(b) Anne.
(c) Tante Zi.
(d) Man Jou.

11. What does Joseph carry under his arm when he visits Mira in the hospital in 2004?
(a) Flowers.
(b) An oxygen tank.
(c) A Bible.
(d) A pack of cigarettes.

12. 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?
(a) Krome, a detention center.
(b) A state prison.
(c) They were sent back to Haiti immediately.
(d) Ellis Island.

13. Where does Danticat take Joseph for his medical exam in 1983?
(a) A Haitian herbal clinic.
(b) Cooks County Hospital.
(c) Mount Sinai Hospital.
(d) Kings County Hospital.

14. What hurtful question does Kelly ask Danicat and Bob their first night in the United States?
(a) If they are staying or not.
(b) If they are really black.
(c) If their parents will love them as much as they love Kelly and Karl.
(d) Whether they are adopted.

15. Where does Joseph stay when he first flees his house in October 2004?
(a) With a neighbor called Ferna.
(b) With Tante Zi.
(c) With Mira.
(d) With Maxo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the head of the neighborhood gang threaten to do to Joseph if he can not come up with the money they are asking for?

2. How did Danticat discover that U.S. officials determined the ages of some of the immigrants seeking asylum?

3. What is the cause of the gunfire Joseph hears in Bel Air on October 24, 2004?

4. In Granme Melina's story about hell, how is hell defined?

5. What street does Danticat live on as a child in New York?

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