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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 the girl take to her mother?
2. In what way is the ocean like the boy’s love for the girl?
3. For how many generations has the statue of the Madonna been in the girl’s family before her?
4. What color would the women wear, when they visited the Massacre River?
5. What is the girl told to throw away?
Short Essay Questions
1. What consolation is there for the girl after her mother dies?
2. Describe the girl’s trip to visit her mother in prison.
3. What news does Lili greet Guy with?
4. What happens to the boy in the end of the story?
5. What is the American involvement in 1937?
6. What happens to the pregnant girl on the ship?
7. Describe the circumstances in which Guy and Lili live.
8. What is the history of the Madonna the girl carries?
9. What news does Guy bring home, himself?
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
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 2
Evaluate your own reading of Krik? Krak!—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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