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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of Danticat's brothers immediately hugs her when she arrives in the United States at the family's apartment?
(a) Bob.
(b) Kelly.
(c) Karl.
(d) Nick.

2. 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 never liked the food that Tante Denise had cooked.
(d) He wants to please their parents.

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

4. What does Danticat's father have to say about having only children?
(a) Only children are the happiest.
(b) Only children are vulnerable.
(c) Only children are spoiled.
(d) God did not make us with one eye.

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

6. How does Joseph convince Maxo to leave him there in his house after all the violence in October 2004?
(a) He tells Maxo he will follow in a month's time.
(b) He gives Maxo a large sum of money.
(c) He tells Maxo the neighbors might be capable of killing the children.
(d) He tells Maxo he had a terrible vision where Maxo is killed.

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

8. Which neighbor of Joseph's comes to his house to warn him he is in danger from the neighbors?
(a) Betrand.
(b) Anne.
(c) Bob.
(d) Tante Zi.

9. Why does Danticat think Joseph asked for asylum rather than use the valid visa he had to travel to the United States?
(a) His religion dictated that he should request asylum.
(b) He did not want to leave his son Maxo.
(c) He knew he would be staying longer than 30 days and he wanted to tell the truth.
(d) He was ashamed of the visa.

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

11. Which airline does Danticat call in the fall of 2004 to try to get information about Joseph?
(a) Virgin Airlines.
(b) American Airlines.
(c) Norwegian Air.
(d) United Airlines.

12. What is the name of Danticat's father's cab?
(a) A flowered cab.
(b) A checkered cab.
(c) A daisy cab.
(d) A gypsy cab.

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) He is too old and ill to leave and start over.
(b) Someone has to stay behind to receive letters and greet visiting family.
(c) He can not leave the graves of his parents.
(d) He thinks he may run for office one day.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tante Denise die of?

2. Who helps make the arrangements for Tante Denise's funeral?

3. What device does the doctor give Joseph in 1983?

4. What does Danticat think her bedclothes in the United States smell like?

5. Why does Joseph tell U.S. immigration officials he is requesting asylum?

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