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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 does Uncle Joseph take medication for?
(a) Cancer.
(b) High blood pressure and inflamed prostate.
(c) Liver disease.
(d) Stroke prevention.

2. How does Danticat refer to her grandfather?
(a) Granpe Joseph.
(b) Grandpa Mira.
(c) Grandpa Stephen.
(d) Granpe Nozial.

3. How does Joseph look different to Danticat when she meets him at the airport in 1983?
(a) He looks very thin.
(b) He looks ill.
(c) He has gained some weight and somehow looks shorter.
(d) He looks taller and stronger.

4. Which of Danticat's brothers live closest to their parents?
(a) Karl and Bob.
(b) Karl and Kelly.
(c) Kelly.
(d) Bob and Kelly.

5. When does the American Consulate write to Joseph requesting that Danticat and Bob undergo a physical to see if they can travel to the United States?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1982.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the doctor say when Danticat asks if her father would be a candidate for a lung transplant?

2. What disease does Danticat's father Mira suffer from?

3. What is Danticat's husband's name?

4. What does Danticat's brother Karl say when she tells him she is pregnant?

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

(see the answer key)

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