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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 one of the mothers come home with, when she visits the prison where the ‘radio six’ are kept?

2. What secret does the girl’s mother reveal to her?

3. Why did Guy and Lili keep their son close to them at the sugar mill?

4. How does the narrator characterize soldiers in Haiti?

5. What does the boy say he is glad his boat is not full of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the history of the Massacre River?

2. What is the significance of the sugar mill, in the day and at night?

3. What news does Guy bring home, himself?

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

5. How does the boy in Children of the Sea describe his love for the girl?

6. Why does Guy get angry at his son?

7. Describe the girl’s trip to visit her mother in prison.

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

9. Why is the girl’s mother in prison?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways is Krik? Krak! relevant to contemporary readers? What contemporary issues are in play in the book, and how would the book contribute to contemporary discussion? Cite specific discussions from contemporary sources, and cite specific instances from the book, that describe its contemporary relevance.

Essay Topic 2

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

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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