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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens between the female narrator's family in the latrine?
2. What do black butterflies bring?
3. How does the female narrator's father prevent the her arrest?
4. Who says, "He was going to make a good man, that boy. Sharp like a needle point, that boy, he took the university exams a year before everyone else in this area?"
5. What items does the second narrator's father want her to throw away?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is the sea personified in the story? What do the narrators descriptions of the sea tell us about the narrator himself? How does this contrast with the female narrator's descriptions of the mountains?
Essay Topic 2
Think about all the gruesome descriptions the female narrator offers. What tone does she take when describing? What does this tell us about the narrator? About Haitians?
Essay Topic 3
Think about the female narrator's relationship with her mother. What parallels do we see in both their lives? How does her mother try and repair the relationship between the narrator and her father? Is she successful?
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