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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Aristide leave office less than a year after being sworn in in 1991?
(a) He is ill and must step down.
(b) He is ousted in a military coup.
(c) He is challenged and beaten in a democratic election by an opponent.
(d) There is a corruption scandal and he is forced to resign in disgrace.

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

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

4. Why does Danticat suspect Joseph was treated so badly by U.S. Customs and Immigration officials?
(a) He may have fallen victim to old and biased policies under which Haitians were detained and deported in larger numbers than other immigrant groups.
(b) He was flagged because of his religion.
(c) He may have been abrasive and disrespectful to the officials.
(d) He was suffering from dementia.

5. 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 is too old and ill to leave and start over.
(c) He thinks he may run for office one day.
(d) He can not leave the graves of his parents.

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

7. What hurtful question does Kelly ask Danicat and Bob their first night in the United States?
(a) If they are staying or not.
(b) If they are really black.
(c) Whether they are adopted.
(d) If their parents will love them as much as they love Kelly and Karl.

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

9. What does Tante Denise die of?
(a) A massive stroke.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) She is shot in the crossfire in the gang violence of her neighborhood.
(d) Cancer.

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

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

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

13. What does the giant velvet painting in Danticat's childhood apartment depict?
(a) The Last Supper.
(b) The Crucifixtion.
(c) George Washington and the cherry tree.
(d) The French Rvolution.

14. Who is gathered in Joseph's house on the morning of October 24, 2004?
(a) Foreign doctors.
(b) His students.
(c) Many of Joseph's family members, including his son and grandchildren.
(d) His congregation.

15. What is the cause of the gunfire Joseph hears in Bel Air on October 24, 2004?
(a) The American military is helping to overthrow the government.
(b) United Nations soldiers and Haitian riot police are rooting out the most violent gangs in Bel Air.
(c) Papa Doc's Macoutes are rounding people up to be taken to jail.
(d) French soldiers are staging an uprising.

Short Answer 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?

2. What kind of food does the Customs and Border Patrol personnel give to Joseph initially?

3. What street does Danticat live on as a child in New York?

4. How many letters does Danticat write on her typewriter to Uncle Joseph?

5. What does Danticat mistake the fire escape for?

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