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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are Tante Denise and Uncle Joseph so upset with the neighbors across the street in 1974?
(a) Their son, the father of Marie Micheline's baby, does not admit he is the father.
(b) They made fun of Joseph's loss of voice.
(c) They skipped Melina's funeral.
(d) They robbed them of some money.

2. What does Bob tell Mira about Joseph's mood when they had left Haiti?
(a) He said Joseph had seemed angry.
(b) He said Joseph had seemed happy.
(c) He said Joseph had seemed sad.
(d) He said Joseph had seemed indifferent.

3. What new barrier to their emigration do Danticat and Bob encounter during their six months of medical treatment in 1980?
(a) Danticat gets another illness.
(b) The United States bars all immigrants from Haiti.
(c) Mira loses his job, which he needs in order to be able to bring his children to the U.S.
(d) The Haitian government forbids anyone to emigrate.

4. What do some of the cruel neighbors say to Joseph after his throat surgery?
(a) They ask how his wife can stand to still live with him.
(b) They tell him no one will ever love him again.
(c) They tell him it is better that he can not talk.
(d) They call him cave neck.

5. Who was secretly pregnant in 1974?
(a) Danticat's mother.
(b) Tante Denise.
(c) Marie Micheline.
(d) Tante Zi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Danticat's father lose his job on the day they arrive in the United States from Haiti?

2. What kind of stand does Tante Zi run in Haiti?

3. What does Danticat's mother say when she mishears something?

4. Where was Jean-Bertrand Aristide spending his exile in 2004?

5. Where does Danticat's brother Kelly live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What scary story does Granme Melina tell the children in Joseph's house in the section titled "Good-bye"?

2. What does Danticat's mother give to her at the last possible minute at the airport to take with her on the plane?

3. Why does Joseph start to take the children in his house on simple errands with him following his laryngectomy?

4. What illness does Uncle Joseph suffer from that eventually robs him of his voice?

5. What does Danticat's mother do for her in preparation for her leaving for the United States in the section titled "Heartstrings, Shoestrings"?

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

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

8. Where had Danticat moved to from Brooklyn in 2002?

9. How does Uncle Joseph first meet Tante Denise?

10. How does Joseph communicate and what does he communicate at Granme Melina's funeral since he can not give a sermon due to the loss of his voice?

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