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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. When does Uncle Joseph meet his wife, Tante Denise?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1932.

2. Where does Danticat tell her parents she is pregnant?
(a) At their house, over dinner.
(b) In a park.
(c) In the car on the way to the airport.
(d) In a hospital waiting room.

3. Why was there no wake for Tante Denise?
(a) Wakes are not part of Haitian culture.
(b) Denise had to be buried too quickly for a wake.
(c) Joseph feared the gangs in the neighborhood might storm the house during a wake.
(d) Joseph was too sad to hold a wake for Denise.

4. What does the giant velvet painting in Danticat's childhood apartment depict?
(a) The French Rvolution.
(b) The Last Supper.
(c) The Crucifixtion.
(d) George Washington and the cherry tree.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bob do when he sees his mother for the first time in many years?

2. What does Marie Micheline name her baby?

3. Why does Danticat's father not want to take the medication the doctor has prescribed?

4. What does Tante Denise do right before Danticat and Bob leave for the United States?

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

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