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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tante Zi do when Danticat tells her about her and Bob's illness?

2. What age is Danticat when she moves in with Uncle Joseph and Tante Denise?

3. What do some of the cruel neighbors say to Joseph after his throat surgery?

4. Where do Joseph and Denise build their first house?

5. What does Marie Micheline tell Joseph when he comes to free her from her husband?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. Why does Danticat's father Mira decide not to take the codeine his doctor has prescribed for him?

6. Why does Danticat decide not to tell her extended family about her pregnancy right away?

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

8. In the section titled "Good-bye," what book does Danticat select to buy for herself while out with Joseph and why?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Marie Micheline becomes pregnant out of wedlock in 1974, Tante Denise and Uncle Joseph are distraught, and they send Marie Micheline off to a distant part of town to have the baby. What does Marie Micheline's experience and Tante Denise's and Uncle Joseph's reaction to it indicate about the cultural attitudes towards women at that time in Haitian culture? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing the effect that Joseph's mechanical voice box, which he acquires on a trip to the United States in the early 1980s, has on the rest of his life.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring the faith that both Joseph and Mira place in herbal and alternative medicine. Where does the tradition that they follow seem to have originated?

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