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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. How does Joseph convince Maxo to leave him there in his house after all the violence in October 2004?
(a) He gives Maxo a large sum of money.
(b) He tells Maxo he will follow in a month's time.
(c) He tells Maxo the neighbors might be capable of killing the children.
(d) He tells Maxo he had a terrible vision where Maxo is killed.

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

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

5. How did Danticat discover that U.S. officials determined the ages of some of the immigrants seeking asylum?
(a) By taking X-rays of their bones.
(b) By asking them for their papers.
(c) By examining their teeth.
(d) By drawing blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who decides to go into Bel Air and help get Joseph to safety in the fall of 2004?

2. In Granme Melina's story about hell, how is hell defined?

3. What does Tante Denise die of?

4. What does Mira tell the children about the fire escape?

5. What street does Danticat live on as a child in New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Marie Micheline die?

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

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

4. In the section "Brother, I Leave You With a Heavy Heart," why is Danticat's father concerned about Joseph?

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

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

7. What does Danticat's father say when, as a child, she asks him what he would like to do if he could do something other than his actual job?

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

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

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

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