View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Danticat's father run his car service with?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her Uncle Franck.
(c) Her Tante Zi.
(d) Her brother Bob.

2. Why does Marie Micheline's husband take her away from Bel Air?
(a) She spoke to the man who was the father of her baby, asking him to admit she was his.
(b) She asked him for more money to run the household.
(c) She told him she wanted to have another baby.
(d) She told him she wanted to leave him.

3. Which of Danticat's brothers live closest to their parents?
(a) Karl and Bob.
(b) Karl and Kelly.
(c) Bob and Kelly.
(d) Kelly.

4. What treat does Danticat remember getting on the street with Joseph when she was a child?
(a) Grilled cheese sandwiches.
(b) Crepes.
(c) Ice sweetened with syrup.
(d) Churros.

5. Why does Danticat's father lose his job on the day they arrive in the United States from Haiti?
(a) He had been wrongly accused of stealing from the company.
(b) He asked his boss if he could leave work early to pick his children up at the airport, and the boss had said no.
(c) He could not take the physical labor involved in the job any longer.
(d) He asked his boss for a raise, and the boss had fired him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which politician does Joseph admire in the 1950s?

2. Where does Danticat's brother Kelly live?

3. Why are Tante Denise and Uncle Joseph so upset with the neighbors across the street in 1974?

4. Why does Danticat's father not want to take the medication the doctor has prescribed?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In the section titled "We're All Dying," what does Danticat's friend tell her when Danticat informs her about how ill her father is?

2. Who is the father of Marie Micheline's first baby and what is that person's reaction when confronted with the fact of the pregnancy?

3. What does Danticat remember most fondly about Marie Micheline's kindness towards her as a young child?

4. In the section titled "Have You Enjoyed Your Life?", what does the herbalist Danticat's father takes her to tell her about her health?

5. What eventually happens with Marie Micheline's first husband, Pressoir?

6. How does Danticat react when she sees her pregnancy test is positive?

7. In the section titled "Good-bye," how do the children determine that Granme Melina has died?

8. What force does Uncle Joseph and Mira's father, Granpe Nozial, join in the early decades of the 1900s in Haiti?

9. In the section titled Good-bye, how does Danticat remember neighbors treating her Uncle Joseph after his tracheotomy?

10. Why was Danticat's father concerned about her move in 2002?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 884 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample