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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Cut his head off.
(b) Poison him.
(c) Shoot him.
(d) Stab him.

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

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

4. In Granme Melina's story about hell, how is hell defined?
(a) As a fire with no relief.
(b) As the thing you fear the most.
(c) As other people.
(d) As total isolation.

5. What does Danticat think her bedclothes in the United States smell like?
(a) Moth balls.
(b) Citronella and vetiver.
(c) Chanel perfume.
(d) Soap.

6. How did Danticat discover that U.S. officials determined the ages of some of the immigrants seeking asylum?
(a) By asking them for their papers.
(b) By drawing blood.
(c) By examining their teeth.
(d) By taking X-rays of their bones.

7. When did Haitians begin arriving in Florida in large numbers by boat?
(a) The early 2000s.
(b) The mid-1990s.
(c) The early 1970s.
(d) The early 1980s.

8. Why does Danticat sense that Bob eats so much during their first dinner with their parents in the United States?
(a) He is very hungry from the flight.
(b) He has a glycemic disorder.
(c) He wants to please their parents.
(d) He never liked the food that Tante Denise had cooked.

9. What story does Tante Denise tell Danticat the last time Danticat visits her in Haiti?
(a) The House With the Golden Windows.
(b) The Snake and the Badger.
(c) The Angel of Death and Father God.
(d) The Old Goat and the Young Ram.

10. What is the welcome meal that Danticat's parents cook for her and Bob when they arrive in the United States?
(a) Pork roast.
(b) Mustard greens, fried chicken, and grapes.
(c) Rice and beans, fried plantains, and stewed chicken.
(d) Macaroni and cheese.

11. What complication does Danticat find out she has in her pregnancy?
(a) Gestational diabetes.
(b) Gallbladder irritation.
(c) A low-lying placenta.
(d) High blood pressure.

12. Who took Joseph and Maxo to the airport in Haiti in the fall of 2004?
(a) Anne.
(b) Ferna.
(c) Tante Zi.
(d) Man Jou.

13. Why does Joseph tell Danticat he and Tante Denise will not choose to leave Haiti despite all the violence in the early 1990s?
(a) Someone has to stay behind to receive letters and greet visiting family.
(b) He can not leave the graves of his parents.
(c) He is too old and ill to leave and start over.
(d) He thinks he may run for office one day.

14. Why does Joseph choose not to use his voice box often during the last days of October 2004?
(a) It will draw attention, and he is trying to lay low because the neighborhood gangs are out to get him.
(b) He ran out of batteries.
(c) It broke.
(d) He is forbidden to use it by his doctor.

15. Why does Joseph come to New York in the summer of 1983?
(a) For a medical checkup.
(b) To take Danticat back to Haiti with him.
(c) For a religious visit.
(d) To immigrate there permanently.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term the authorities use to describe gang members?

2. What earlier historical tragedy does the asylum system and process sometimes remind Danticat of?

3. Where does Joseph stay when he first flees his house in October 2004?

4. What does the quote that Danticat uses to start Part Two of the book say that a brother is born for?

5. How does Marie Micheline die?

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