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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 does Sophie tell Louise her profession is back home?
2. Who picks Sophie up at the airport in the United States?
3. Where does Sophie retrieve her daughter after noticing the statue of Erzulie?
4. How does Sophie's grandmother look during the visit?
5. How do Sophie and her grandmother react to Louise at the market?
Short Essay Questions
1. Two special events happen during dinner in Chapter 20. Which two events are different than other nights?
2. What happens at Sophie's mother's apartment the weekend that Joseph, Sophie, and Brigitte drive there on the weekend?
3. Why do Sophie's mother and grandmother go to the notary together?
4. Why does Sophie's mother come to visit in Haiti?
5. What does Sophie do the first two months she is living in New York?
6. What happens the night Joseph comes home from touring and takes Sophie out to the Note?
7. Sophie asks her mother why she put her through those tests. What does Sophie's mother answer?
8. What happens the second time Sophie's mother tries to test her and she fails?
9. Sophie and her grandmother sit and listen to night sounds one night after dinner. What do they hear?
10. What happens when Sophie returns to Haiti for her mother's funeral?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The Haitian government is violent and the Haitian people are fearful of it. This theme appears several times over the course of the book. Where is this displayed in "Breath, Eyes, Memory?" Give three examples of the fear and/or the violent regime.
Essay Topic 2
Female characters are a big theme in the book. In the third book, a new female character, Brigitte, gets introduced. What is her role through the rest of the book? What is her liaison to the other female characters? Where is her importance displayed in the book?
Essay Topic 3
Death is introduced as a theme at the end of the book. In this case, death equals freedom. Explain this motif. Who is set free? How and why?
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