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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (pages 112 - 169).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Jean-Bertrand Aristide spending his exile in 2004?
(a) Norway.
(b) The United Kingdom.
(c) Sweden.
(d) South Africa.

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

3. What was Mira's first apprenticeship in Haiti?
(a) As a tailor.
(b) As a blacksmith.
(c) As an engineer.
(d) As a cobbler.

4. Who was secretly pregnant in 1974?
(a) Tante Zi.
(b) Marie Micheline.
(c) Danticat's mother.
(d) Tante Denise.

5. Where do Joseph and Denise build their first house?
(a) A neighborhood near Port-au-Prince harbor.
(b) Bel Air.
(c) The Southern countryside in Haiti.
(d) The Northern countryside in Haiti.

Short Answer Questions

1. What treat does Danticat remember getting on the street with Joseph when she was a child?

2. Where does Joseph meet Denise for the first time?

3. Why does Danticat sense that Bob eats so much during their first dinner with their parents in the United States?

4. What are Papa Doc's militia men called?

5. What is the name of Danticat's father's cab?

(see the answer key)

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