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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 Sophie's mother live?

2. What does Sophie see on the drive out of Croix-des-Rosets?

3. How is chagrin treated?

4. Why does Sophie not want anybody to see her body?

5. Who is the sender of the item that comes for the family?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Sophie think about when she looks at a picture of her and Joseph on their wedding day?

3. What happens when Sophie and Joseph go to bed after Sophie calls her mom?

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

5. What happens the night Sophie's mother introduces her boyfriend Marc to Sophie and what do they talk about?

6. Sophie asks her mother why she put her through those tests. What does Sophie's mother answer?

7. What happens when Sophie asks Atie if Brigitte can sleep in her room?

8. What does Sophie's grandmother do when Sophie sits on the porch, watching a pack of rainbow butterflies?

9. What does Sophie do for herself and for her baby in the morning, in Chapter 16?

10. Sophie and her mother talk about their health in the plane on the way back to the United States. What starts the conversation and what do they say?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Dreams are another big theme in "Breath, Eyes, Memory." Who is having dreams? What do the dreams symbolize? Compare and contrast each character's dreams.

Essay Topic 3

"Breath, Eyes, Memory" is split up into four books. Describe the setting of each book and explain why these settings change. Why is each setting important for the plot? How does each setting affect the main character Sophie?

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