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

2. What does the quote that Danticat uses to start Part Two of the book say that a brother is born for?
(a) Frienship.
(b) Loyalty.
(c) Adversity.
(d) Love.

3. Where do Joseph and Maxo fly into in the fall of 2004 in the United States?
(a) Washington D.C.
(b) New York.
(c) Boston.
(d) Miami.

4. What is the name of the officer who took down all of Joseph's information for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol?
(a) Officer Reyes.
(b) Officer Smith.
(c) Officer Sandrine.
(d) Officer Zero.

5. Who was secretly pregnant in 1974?
(a) Tante Zi.
(b) Tante Denise.
(c) Marie Micheline.
(d) Danticat's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Marie Micheline die?

2. What complication does Danticat find out she has in her pregnancy?

3. Which book does Danticat cherish as a child?

4. What is the name of the doctor who sees Danticat's father?

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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