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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. What do the neighborhood gangs do to Joseph's church?
(a) Mark it with graffiti.
(b) Bulldoze it.
(c) Take it over as their headquarters.
(d) Burn it.

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

3. What does Joseph carry under his arm when he visits Mira in the hospital in 2004?
(a) A Bible.
(b) Flowers.
(c) An oxygen tank.
(d) A pack of cigarettes.

4. What do the neighborhood gangs and the neighbors do to Joseph's house?
(a) Burn it down.
(b) Paint it with graffiti.
(c) Load it with filth so it is uninhabitable.
(d) Loot it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Aristide leave office less than a year after being sworn in in 1991?

2. Who took Joseph and Maxo to the airport in Haiti in the fall of 2004?

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

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

5. How does Marie Micheline die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Marie Micheline die?

2. What story about Marie Micheline does Danticat tell her Uncle Joseph the night of Marie Micheline's funeral?

3. Who first warns Joseph he may be in danger in October 2004 in Haiti?

4. What does Danticat's father do for work in the United States, and what are some of his challenges on the job?

5. How does Joseph eventually convince Maxo to leave the house under cover of darkness in October 2004?

6. In the section titled "Gypsy," what is Danticat's new home in America like physically?

7. When Joseph visits New York in 1983, what life-changing device does he receive from the hospital?

8. How does Danticat's brother Karl react to her when she first arrives in New York?

9. How does Tante Zi get Joseph out of hiding and safely to the airport in October 2004?

10. What is the first present Danticat's father gives to her upon her arrival in the United States?

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