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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. How does Marie Micheline die?
(a) She dies in childbirth.
(b) She reportedly dies of a heart attack in the midst of a violent outbreak in her neighborhood.
(c) She is shot.
(d) She dies of cancer.

2. What does Danticat's father give her on her second day in the United States?
(a) A typewriter.
(b) A phone.
(c) A notebook.
(d) A fountain pen.

3. Where do Danticat's parents and extended family live in the U.S.?
(a) Miami.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Boston.

4. Where does Danticat move to in the early 2000s?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Boston.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Miami.

5. What does Mira say he would have liked to have done if he did not drive a taxi?
(a) Be a writer.
(b) Be an engineer.
(c) Be a tailor.
(d) Be an undertaker or a grocer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What device does the doctor give Joseph in 1983?

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

3. Who does Danticat share a bunk bed with in Joseph's house?

4. Where was Jean-Bertrand Aristide spending his exile in 2004?

5. What does Marie Micheline name her baby?

(see the answer key)

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