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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Freda meet Rézia and Mariselle?
(a) In Rézia’s restaurant.
(b) In Freda’s parents’ house.
(c) In class to get their GED.
(d) In church.

2. What is the saying of Voltaire’s that Romain quotes to Michel?
(a) Know yourself and you will know the world of the gods.
(b) The unexamined life is not worth living.
(c) To thine own self be true and you cannot be false to any man.
(d) Blood is the price of eating sugar in Europe.

3. What is the reality of Michel’s father’s whereabouts?
(a) His father fled to America when Michel was young.
(b) His father died in a prison camp.
(c) His father lives across the street at the water station.
(d) His father is a macoute who lives in Port-au-Prince.

4. What does Freda say she is going to do when she goes back to Haiti?
(a) Join a militia.
(b) Work for the government.
(c) Open a school.
(d) Get revenge against the macoutes.

5. Where is Michel telling the story of this time in Haiti?
(a) In prison with other men.
(b) Driving home with his son.
(c) In bed with his pregnant wife.
(d) On the bus talking with a stranger.

6. Where does Dany get a sharp pain after walking for two hours?
(a) His feet.
(b) His side.
(c) His stomach.
(d) His head.

7. What does Aline taste in Beatrice’s coffee?
(a) Spirits.
(b) Lime.
(c) Vanilla.
(d) Spices.

8. What does Aline say she learned was useful in her education?
(a) The similarity of cultures’ stories.
(b) The beauty of the written word.
(c) The injustice of a psychology experiment.
(d) The long history of injustices and violence in the Americas.

9. How does Claude describe integrating back into his people’s community?
(a) Being a fragment of a manuscript, and hearing the rest.
(b) Being a lost child and coming home.
(c) Being a puzzle the people are putting together.
(d) Being sick and getting better.

10. What do people say to explain why Dany’s aunt died so shortly after his arrival?
(a) An angel told him to come.
(b) Blood calls to blood.
(c) She told him in a dream.
(d) He must have heard a voice.

11. Who does Aline run into when she is looking into the house she thinks belongs to the Haitian prison guard?
(a) The Italian baker.
(b) The Guyanaian dentist.
(c) The Jamaican schoolteacher.
(d) The Dominican social worker.

12. What does Aline say she studied in school?
(a) World literature.
(b) American literature.
(c) Caribbean history.
(d) French literature.

13. Why were prison guards called dew breakers?
(a) They would come for you early in the morning.
(b) They would come for you when the dew was settling.
(c) They would break so many bones when they tortured people.
(d) The pain of torture would make sweat pop out on people’s skin like dew.

14. Why does Freda sing Brother Timonie for her friends?
(a) To remind them of home.
(b) To show off.
(c) To show them her funeral song.
(d) To honor her father.

15. How did the prison guard torture Beatrice?
(a) Bloodied her feet, then made her walk home barefoot.
(b) Kept her awake for seven days on end.
(c) Whipped her until she could not stand.
(d) Made her watch while he killed her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Freda say she left Haiti?

2. How old is Michel while he is narrating the story in the present moment of the story in "Monkey Tails"?

3. Who are the people Aline wants to write about?

4. Where is Dany’s aunt coming from, when he arrives?

5. How does Freda says she got her start as a funeral singer?

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