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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. Who is the sender of the item that comes for the family?
2. How does Sophie feel after eating beans for supper?
3. When Sophie gets ready for bed her first night in the United States, what does she hand her mother?
4. What does Sophie say when her grandmother asks if her husband is a good man?
5. Where does Joseph take Sophie when he comes home from touring the first time?
Short Essay Questions
1. One night Sophie's grandmother cooks beans and she and Sophie have a conversation about Sophie's husband. What do they talk about?
2. What happens during the week before Sophie leaves to see her mother?
3. Sophie talks for the first time about her mother in the conversation with her therapist. What does Sophie say about her mother?
4. What happens when Sophie and Joseph go to bed after Sophie calls her mom?
5. The night of the conversation between Sophie and her grandmother, Sophie's grandmother tells a story to a group of neighborhood boys. What is this story about?
6. What happens in Chapter 14 when Sophie and her aunt Atie walk home after Sophie arrives with a van?
7. What does Sophie's therapist tell Sophie after she explains her mother's condition?
8. Sophie calls Joseph back at her mother's apartment. What is their conversation about?
9. What happens when Sophie returns to Haiti for her mother's funeral?
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
The four main characters in "Breath, Eyes, Memory" are Sophie, her mother, her grandmother, and her aunt. They represent females of different generations in the same family. Compare and contrast the relationships between these four women and describe how these relationships develop over the course of the book.
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
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.
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