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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. How old is Sophie when she meets Joseph?
2. What happens the second time Sophie's mother tries to test her?
3. What life form does the woman in the story Sophie heard take on in order to stop bleeding?
4. What is the name of Sophie's mother's boyfriend?
5. Who is the argument between that Sophie and her grandmother witness at the market?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Sophie feel after the meeting at her sexual phobia group?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. What does Sophie see after she bathes and changes the baby?
5. When Sophie is leaving in the van, she describes a sight called Guinea. What is Guinea?
6. What has changed in Sophie's life when the third book opens with Chapter 13?
7. Describe the events surrounding the Mother's Day card Sophie intends to give her Aunt Atie.
8. What story does Sophie think about when she goes to bed with a pestle?
9. Who is the cassette from that the family receives and what does the person on the cassette say?
10. Sophie asks her grandmother why mothers test their children. What does her grandmother answer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
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?
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