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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. In what way does the girl recreate her visit to the Massacre River when she goes to see her mother?
2. What secret does the girl’s mother reveal to her?
3. What does the boy say he is glad his boat is not full of?
4. How old was the girl when her mother took her on a pilgrimage to the Massacre River?
5. What has the girl’s manman buried behind the house?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of the sugar mill, in the day and at night?
2. Why is the boy fleeing from Haiti?
3. Why is the girl’s mother in prison?
4. Why does Guy get angry at his son?
5. Describe the prison where the mother is kept.
6. What are the mood and tone of this story?
7. What consolation is there for the girl after her mother dies?
8. How does the boy in Children of the Sea describe his love for the girl?
9. Describe the girl’s trip to visit her mother in prison.
10. Describe the circumstances in which Guy and Lili live.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What values does she hold dear? What are her hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think she is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.
Essay Topic 2
Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.
Essay Topic 3
Who is the audience for Krik? Krak!? What is the ideal reader for Krik? Krak! likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
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