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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (pages 170 - 224).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 mother preferred all of her brothers to her.
(d) Seeing how her father doted on her brother Bob.

2. Where does Joseph go after leaving the first neighbor's house he takes refuge in in October 2004?
(a) Mira's house.
(b) Maxo's house.
(c) Man Jou's house.
(d) A neighboring church.

3. What does Danticat's father have to say about having only children?
(a) Only children are vulnerable.
(b) Only children are spoiled.
(c) Only children are the happiest.
(d) God did not make us with one eye.

4. What does the head of the neighborhood gang threaten to do to Joseph if he can not come up with the money they are asking for?
(a) Poison him.
(b) Shoot him.
(c) Cut his head off.
(d) Stab him.

5. What is the name of the doctor who sees Danticat's father?
(a) Dr. Janker.
(b) Dr. Smith.
(c) Dr. Forent.
(d) Dr. Padman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Marie Micheline studying in 1974?

2. What does Liline say to Danticat and Bob when they leave for the United States?

3. What is the name of the officer who took down all of Joseph's information for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol?

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

5. What are some of the side effects of Danticat's treatment for her illness in 1980?

(see the answer key)

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