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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. Where does Tante Atie sit with Brigitte on her lap?

2. When was the picture taken of Sophie and Joseph that Sophie looks at?

3. Atie behaves differently one morning at breakfast. What does Atie do when she eats breakfast?

4. When Sophie gets ready for bed her first night in the United States, what does she hand her mother?

5. Where does Joseph take Sophie when he comes home from touring the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sophie's mother not look happy to be home?

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

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

4. What happens the night Joseph comes home from touring and takes Sophie out to the Note?

5. What happens at the house of Sophie's grandmother after she and Atie have an argument about Atie's reading lessons?

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

7. What happens at the market when Sophie and her grandmother go there in Chapter 17?

8. What happens when an older Sophie first arrives at her grandmother's house?

9. Pictures play an important role in Chapter 19. Why does Sophie want to take a picture of her grandmother and how does her grandmother react?

10. In Book 3, Chapter 26, Sophie overhears her mother and grandmother talking. What are they talking about and what happens after the conversation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Storytelling is important in "Breath, Eyes, Memory." Who tells most of these stories? What do they represent and why are they told? How do they further the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Sophie's life changes drastaically when she moves to New York and lives with her mother. Describe in your own words what Sophie does when she first gets to the States. How does she adapt? Who does she meet? How does she feel?

Essay Topic 3

Edwidge Danticat set the book in Haiti and in the United States. Why did she set the book in these places and what is her goal with this book? Did she achieve that goal?

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