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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (pages 58 - 111).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joseph name his church?
(a) The Christian Church of Redemption.
(b) The Savior of Bel Air.
(c) The National Church of Haiti.
(d) Our Holy Mother of Port-au-Prince.

2. Where does Joseph meet Denise for the first time?
(a) On the street in Brooklyn.
(b) In the markets of Bel Air.
(c) In the church in Bel Air.
(d) On the hills in Beausejour, Haiti.

3. Why does Danticat's father lose his job on the day they arrive in the United States from Haiti?
(a) He asked his boss if he could leave work early to pick his children up at the airport, and the boss had said no.
(b) He had been wrongly accused of stealing from the company.
(c) He could not take the physical labor involved in the job any longer.
(d) He asked his boss for a raise, and the boss had fired him.

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

5. What was Danticat's first experience of intense jealousy?
(a) Seeing how Joseph seemed to prefer Marie Micheline to her.
(b) Seeing her mother and Bob asleep, cuddled together, when Bob was a baby.
(c) Seeing how her father doted on her brother Bob.
(d) Seeing how her mother preferred all of her brothers to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after Danticat's father leaves for the United States does her mother follow him?

2. Who is the baby Danticat's mother brings to Haiti with her in 1976?

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

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

5. What is Marie Micheline's husband's name?

(see the answer key)

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