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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who picks Sophie up at the airport in the United States?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father.

2. How long do Sophie and her aunt sit in a van on their way to Sophie's grandmother?
(a) Five hours.
(b) Six hours.
(c) Four hours.
(d) Two hours.

3. What poem does Atie read before she leaves the house for the night?
(a) A poem Sophie wrote for her mother recently.
(b) A poem she read in a newspaper.
(c) The poem Sophie wrote on a Mother's Day card years earlier.
(d) One of her own poems.

4. Which number does Atie use to win the lottery?
(a) Her own age.
(b) Ife's age.
(c) Sophie's age.
(d) Martine's age.

5. What is Louise selling on the side of the road?
(a) Cola.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Fish.
(d) Vegetables.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the new supper guest bring as a gift?

2. What represents Sophie's mother in the poem?

3. What does Sophie drink when she and Joseph go out in Long Island?

4. What name does Sophie give her mother for the man she likes?

5. Who is the woman that picks Sophie up also caring for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens in Chapter 14 when Sophie and her aunt Atie walk home after Sophie arrives with a van?

4. What did Atie and her sister Martine do in Port-au-Prince when they were young?

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

6. What does Sophie's mother tell Sophie after arriving at her mother's house?

7. How does Sophie feel after the meeting at her sexual phobia group?

8. Dessalines' death gets Sophie thinking about the Macoutes. What does she think about the Macoutes and how is that related to her mother?

9. What does Sophie do the first two months she is living in New York?

10. What happens when Sophie returns to Haiti for her mother's funeral?

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