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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. Why do the guards make the women dash themselves with cold water at night?
2. What does the girl say is the biggest weapon the government can use against the people?
3. What do the prison guards suspect the girl’s mother of being?
4. What does the son do to make Guy angry?
5. What is the girl’s last hope, in the story?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is it like on the ship the boy is sailing in?
2. What is the history of the Madonna the girl carries?
3. What is the importance of Boukman’s speech in A Wall of Fire Rising?
4. Describe the circumstances in which Guy and Lili live.
5. Describe the girl’s pilgrimage to the Massacre River.
6. What is it like in Haiti where the girl remains after the boy’s departure?
7. What happens when the soldiers come for the girl’s neighbor?
8. Describe the prison where the mother is kept.
9. What news does Guy bring home, himself?
10. What is the significance of the sugar mill, in the day and at night?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Would you recommend Krik? Krak!? For what purposes would you recommend Krik? Krak!, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?
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