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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Mira tell the children about the fire escape?
(a) It is a very American thing.
(b) It has magical powers.
(c) It is completely unnecessary.
(d) Never to go out on it.

6. 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) It broke.
(c) He ran out of batteries.
(d) He is forbidden to use it by his doctor.

7. How does Marie Micheline die?
(a) She dies in childbirth.
(b) She dies of cancer.
(c) She reportedly dies of a heart attack in the midst of a violent outbreak in her neighborhood.
(d) She is shot.

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

9. Why do some of Joseph's neighbors turn on him so violently after October 24, 2004?
(a) They think he blackmailed a beloved teacher.
(b) They think he allowed the UN soldiers and riot police to shoot at neighborhood people from the roof of his church.
(c) They think he is stealing from the church's coffers.
(d) They think he sold information to the police.

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

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

12. What earlier historical tragedy does the asylum system and process sometimes remind Danticat of?
(a) Slavery.
(b) WWI.
(c) WWII.
(d) The Civil War.

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

14. What kind of food does the Customs and Border Patrol personnel give to Joseph initially?
(a) Chips and soda.
(b) Ice cream.
(c) Porridge.
(d) Chocolate candy.

15. Who decides to go into Bel Air and help get Joseph to safety in the fall of 2004?
(a) Maxo.
(b) Mira.
(c) Tante Zi.
(d) Bob.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joseph suggest to Danticat before he leaves to go back to Haiti in September 2004 that could help Mira?

2. What does Joseph tell Mira that science is God's way of shielding?

3. Where does Joseph go after leaving the first neighbor's house he takes refuge in in October 2004?

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

5. Why does Danticat suspect Joseph was treated so badly by U.S. Customs and Immigration officials?

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