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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. Who is the baby Danticat's mother brings to Haiti with her in 1976?
(a) Nick.
(b) Bob.
(c) Karl.
(d) Kelly.

2. What does Marie Micheline tell Joseph when he comes to free her from her husband?
(a) She wants to leave Ruth with him.
(b) She can not come home with him.
(c) She will never be able to repay him.
(d) He has given birth to her by freeing her.

3. What does the doctor say when Danticat asks if her father would be a candidate for a lung transplant?
(a) Her father is too sick.
(b) Her father is too poor.
(c) Her father would be a good candidate for a transplant, but the waiting list is very long.
(d) Her father is too old.

4. What does Tante Denise do right before Danticat and Bob leave for the United States?
(a) Packs food for them to take on the airplane.
(b) Gives them each letters for every day of the year they will be gone.
(c) Kisses them and runs into her room, unable to bear watching them leave.
(d) Blesses them with holy water.

5. What does Bob tell Kelly and Karl is really going on with him and Danticat?
(a) They are really going back to Haiti in a few months.
(b) They are really their cousins.
(c) They are really special Haitian security agents.
(d) They are really spies from space.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does Tante Denise tell Danticat the last time Danticat visits her in Haiti?

2. Why does Danticat think Joseph asked for asylum rather than use the valid visa he had to travel to the United States?

3. What is Marie Micheline's husband's name?

4. What do the neighborhood gangs and the neighbors do to Joseph's house?

5. Who does Uncle Joseph want Mira to marry before Mira meets Danticat's mother?

(see the answer key)

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