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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 terrifies Lili?

2. What flaw does the narrator say he has?

3. What does the girl take to her mother?

4. Who does Boukman see in the wall of fire that rises?

5. Why does the girl say she does not leave the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the girl’s pilgrimage to the Massacre River.

2. What is it like in Haiti where the girl remains after the boy’s departure?

3. What is it like on the ship the boy is sailing in?

4. What consolation is there for the girl after her mother dies?

5. Why is the boy fleeing from Haiti?

6. Why does Lili leave Guy’s eyes open at the end of A Wall of Fire Rising?

7. What news does Lili greet Guy with?

8. What happens to the pregnant girl on the ship?

9. What happens when the soldiers come for the girl’s neighbor?

10. What is the importance of Boukman’s speech in A Wall of Fire Rising?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is the audience for Krik? Krak!? What is the ideal reader for Krik? Krak! likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

Essay Topic 2

What is the role of writing in Krik? Krak!? Who is responsible for story telling, and what kind of stories do they tell? What kind of stories are required, and what does the work of storytelling involve a person in? Using examples from the text, describe the importance of storytelling in Edwidge Danticat’s book of stories.

Essay Topic 3

What is the difference between city and country in Krik? Krak!? How does Edwidge Danticat characterize each of these environments, and how does she define the differences that distinguish them?

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