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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. Who is Dede?
(a) Elsie's brother.
(b) Mona's husband.
(c) Blaise's friend.
(d) Olivia's boyfriend.

2. How does the narrator help Melisande take her medication?
(a) She crushes it and pours it into a drink.
(b) She hides it in her porridge.
(c) She pays Melisande to take it.
(d) They have breakfast together.

3. How long did the father/son dictatorship last for in Haiti?
(a) 100 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 50 years.

4. What did Nadia's father die from?
(a) AIDS.
(b) Lupus.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Heart Attack.

5. Who is Olivia?
(a) Mona's sister.
(b) Blaise's new girlfriend.
(c) Elsie's daughter.
(d) Gaspard's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times had Nadia met her father before his wife calls her and asks her to come to see him?

2. How does Thomas respond to his panic attack in the restaurant?

3. What is Thomas's wife's heritage?

4. What is Thomas's favorite drink?

5. What is Olivia wearing the night she meets Blaise?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Blaise in Section 1, what happens to Olivia?

2. What is Elsie's job in Section 1? Does she like it?

3. How does the narrator respond when Melisande tells her about her medical news?

4. Why is the Canadian doctor who Melisande goes to first concerned about Melisande?

5. What does Dede reveal to Elsie about Blaise in "Dosas"?

6. What events lead up to Thomas and Anika pouring water on their heads?

7. How does Nadia describe her father's wife?

8. What happens when Nadia gets to the house to see her father, in Section 2?

9. How does the earthquake in Haiti impact Thomas's life?

10. What are the key physical differences in Thomas since the earthquake?

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