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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (pages 225 - 269).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Aristide leave office less than a year after being sworn in in 1991?
(a) There is a corruption scandal and he is forced to resign in disgrace.
(b) He is ousted in a military coup.
(c) He is ill and must step down.
(d) He is challenged and beaten in a democratic election by an opponent.

2. What does Danticat think her bedclothes in the United States smell like?
(a) Moth balls.
(b) Chanel perfume.
(c) Soap.
(d) Citronella and vetiver.

3. Who does Danticat share a bunk bed with in Joseph's house?
(a) Bob.
(b) Marie Micheline.
(c) Granme Melina.
(d) Liline.

4. What story does Tante Denise tell Danticat the last time Danticat visits her in Haiti?
(a) The Snake and the Badger.
(b) The Angel of Death and Father God.
(c) The House With the Golden Windows.
(d) The Old Goat and the Young Ram.

5. What does Danticat's brother Kelly remind her of when she tells him she is pregnant?
(a) That she told him she always wanted to be a mother.
(b) That in high school, Danticat told him she never wanted to get married or have children so she could write her books.
(c) That she told him she always wanted to have twins.
(d) That she told him she would move back to Brooklyn if she had a child.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Tante Denise and Uncle Joseph so upset with the neighbors across the street in 1974?

2. What does Danticat's mother make for her before she leaves for the United States?

3. Who calls Danticat to tell her where Joseph is in the fall of 2004, after she is worried that she has not heard from him when he should have arrived in the United States?

4. What does the doctor say when Danticat asks if her father would be a candidate for a lung transplant?

5. What does Danticat's father have to say about having only children?

(see the answer key)

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