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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (pages 170 - 224).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Danticat's father's cab?
(a) A gypsy cab.
(b) A daisy cab.
(c) A checkered cab.
(d) A flowered cab.

2. When did Haitians begin arriving in Florida in large numbers by boat?
(a) The mid-1990s.
(b) The early 1970s.
(c) The early 2000s.
(d) The early 1980s.

3. What does Leone, Tante Denise's sister, say about the shooting outside Denise's funeral?
(a) Leone says the shooting is proof the neighborhood is unsafe now.
(b) Leone says Denise would have been horrified at the shooting.
(c) Leone wonders why there was shooting since Denise was neither in the military or the police force.
(d) Leone says the shooting was disrespectful.

4. What does Danticat's father have to say about having only children?
(a) Only children are vulnerable.
(b) Only children are the happiest.
(c) God did not make us with one eye.
(d) Only children are spoiled.

5. What street does Danticat live on as a child in New York?
(a) The Bronx Expressway.
(b) Flatiron Avenue.
(c) Queens Boulevard.
(d) Flatbush Avenue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Danticat take Joseph for his medical exam in 1983?

2. What does Bob tell Kelly and Karl is really going on with him and Danticat?

3. What does Tante Zi do when Danticat tells her about her and Bob's illness?

4. Who is Tante Denise's mother?

5. Why does Danticat think Joseph asked for asylum rather than use the valid visa he had to travel to the United States?

(see the answer key)

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