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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 the new supper guest bring as a gift?

2. Why does Atie need to go to the market?

3. Where does Sophie retrieve her daughter after noticing the statue of Erzulie?

4. Why does Sophie join her mother at work the first couple of months?

5. What does Grandma Ifé talk about on the way back from the market?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sophie's therapist tell Sophie after she explains her mother's condition?

2. 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?

3. What does Sophie's mother tell Sophie after arriving at her mother's house?

4. Sophie and her grandmother sit and listen to night sounds one night after dinner. What do they hear?

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

6. Sophie asks her grandmother why mothers test their children. What does her grandmother answer?

7. What happens during the week before Sophie leaves to see her mother?

8. What has changed in Sophie's life when the third book opens with Chapter 13?

9. Describe the events surrounding the Mother's Day card Sophie intends to give her Aunt Atie.

10. What does Sophie do after the conversation about her mother with her therapist?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the book, Danticat emphasizes the roles religion and superstition play in the characters' lives. Give five examples of where religion or superstition are mentioned and explain these examples in depth.

Essay Topic 2

Atie's behavior changes over the course of the book. Explain the changes that happen to her. Compare how she behaves during the two different periods. How does she behave while raising Sophie? What does she do when Sophie returns to Haiti? What does Ifé think about Atie? Who's Atie's friend?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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