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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. What were the shirts sent to Haiti from the U.S. in the 1960s called?
(a) Nixons.
(b) Carters.
(c) Eisenhowers.
(d) Kennedys.

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

3. What breaks when Joseph meets Denise for the first time?
(a) Joseph's cart.
(b) Joseph's bridle.
(c) Denise's calabash.
(d) Denise's ankle.

4. How many letters does Danticat write on her typewriter to Uncle Joseph?
(a) One.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) A dozen.
(d) Thousands.

5. What does Danticat's mother give her to take on the plane?
(a) Bottles of water.
(b) Headphones.
(c) Compression stockings.
(d) Haitian food.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was secretly pregnant in 1974?

2. Where does Danticat go with her father before his doctor's appointment in the section titled "Have You Enjoyed Your Life?"?

3. Why was there no wake for Tante Denise?

4. What drug is Danticat's father prescribed that he decides not to take?

5. What was Mira's first apprenticeship in Haiti?

(see the answer key)

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