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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 is the airport located?

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

3. What does Atie ask Sophie and her mother to do after the family sees the package?

4. How does Sophie go to the airport?

5. What does Sophie's aunt learn to do while Sophie is away?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. One night Sophie's grandmother cooks beans and she and Sophie have a conversation about Sophie's husband. What do they talk about?

4. Who is the cassette from that the family receives and what does the person on the cassette say?

5. Dessalines' death gets Sophie thinking about the Macoutes. What does she think about the Macoutes and how is that related to her mother?

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

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

8. What happens in Chapter 14 when Sophie and her aunt Atie walk home after Sophie arrives with a van?

9. What did Atie and her sister Martine do in Port-au-Prince when they were young?

10. One night, Sophie gets ready for bed and hears her grandmother dreaming. What does Sophie ask her daughter after she noticed the dreams of her grandmother?

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

"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?

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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