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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. Where is the narrator writing from?

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

3. What was the prison used for before it was a prison?

4. What is Guy’s hairline supposed to indicate about him?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Guy get angry at his son?

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

4. Why is the boy fleeing from Haiti?

5. What news does Guy bring home, himself?

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

7. What is the significance of the hot-air balloon in A Wall of Fire Rising?

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

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

10. What happens to the boy in the end of the story?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the importance of ‘day women’ and ‘night women’ in Krik? Krak!? How do these images or ideas relate to the other main ideas of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 3

What is the role and importance of voodoo in Krik? Krak!? How does Danticat characterize it? Using examples from the text, define Danticat’s view of voodoo.

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