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

2. What does the quote that Danticat uses to start Part Two of the book say that a brother is born for?
(a) Adversity.
(b) Loyalty.
(c) Frienship.
(d) Love.

3. Where does Danticat take Joseph for his medical exam in 1983?
(a) Mount Sinai Hospital.
(b) Kings County Hospital.
(c) A Haitian herbal clinic.
(d) Cooks County Hospital.

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

5. Why does Aristide leave office less than a year after being sworn in in 1991?
(a) He is ousted in a military coup.
(b) He is ill and must step down.
(c) There is a corruption scandal and he is forced to resign in disgrace.
(d) He is challenged and beaten in a democratic election by an opponent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term the authorities use to describe gang members?

2. Which neighbor of Joseph's comes to his house to warn him he is in danger from the neighbors?

3. What do the neighborhood gangs do to Joseph's church?

4. Why does Joseph choose not to use his voice box often during the last days of October 2004?

5. What complication does Danticat find out she has in her pregnancy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Danticat suspect her brother Bob asks for seconds of dinner on their first night in New York back with their parents?

2. What does Danticat's father have to say about having an only child?

3. What does Danticat's brother Bob tell their other brothers Kelly and Karl on their first night in New York all together?

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

5. Why does Tante Zi tell Joseph he could not have escaped himself?

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

7. What factor about Danticat's pregnancy causes her some anxiety?

8. What folktale about hell does Danticat recall Granme Melina telling?

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

10. Whose house does Joseph initially take refuge in when he is in hiding in Haiti in October 2004?

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