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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. What do Ifé and Atie argue about at dinner?
2. What question does Joseph ask Sophie when he tells her he is leaving forever?
3. What has arrived for the family the day an outsider joins for supper?
4. What do Sophie and her grandmother buy at the market?
5. What does Louis want grandmother and Sophie to buy?
Short Essay Questions
1. Sophie asks her mother why she put her through those tests. What does Sophie's mother answer?
2. What does Sophie see after she bathes and changes the baby?
3. Sophie calls her mother back when she gets home from dinner. What does Sophie's mother tell her?
4. What happens during the potluck dinner Atie and Sophie attend in Chapter 1?
5. Sophie asks her grandmother why mothers test their children. What does her grandmother answer?
6. Dessalines' death gets Sophie thinking about the Macoutes. What does she think about the Macoutes and how is that related to her mother?
7. What happens when Sophie returns to Haiti for her mother's funeral?
8. What does Sophie's grandmother do when Sophie sits on the porch, watching a pack of rainbow butterflies?
9. What happens at the sexual phobia group Sophie attends in Chapter 31?
10. After the argument between the Macoute and the coal vendor, what does Sophie's grandmother tell Sophie about aunt Atie's recent behavior?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sophie's priorities and personality change over the course of the book. Compare the changes she experiences through the four books.
Essay Topic 2
One of the themes explored throughout this book is the inequality between men and women in Haiti during the time in which it is set. Give three examples and explain the inequality.
Essay Topic 3
Talk about the relationship between Sophie and her mother and how it changes over the course of the book. Compare their relationship through the four books. Do you think both women came to terms with each other? Why do you think that?
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