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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 Lili want to know is in Guy’s dreams?

2. How is the boy’s book covered, according to the narrator?

3. What does the boy almost knock over, coming to his father?

4. Where do Guy and Lili and their boy get their water from?

5. Where is the narrator writing from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the history of the Madonna the girl carries?

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

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

4. What is the American involvement in 1937?

5. What is the history of the Massacre River?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would you rewrite Krik? Krak!, if you were to adapt it and make it your own? What part of the book would you preserve? What part would you change? Explain your motivation for the changes you would make.

Essay Topic 2

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 3

Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What values does she hold dear? What are her hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think she is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

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