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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 danger does the boy’s boat face?

2. What does the girl’s mother hope for the girl?

3. How long does the girl’s mother make her food last, in prison?

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

5. Who does the boy dream of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Guy get angry at his son?

3. Describe the prison where the mother is kept.

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

5. What news does Lili greet Guy with?

6. Why is the boy fleeing from Haiti?

7. What news does Guy bring home, himself?

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

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

10. What is the American involvement in 1937?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the most important plot points in Krik? Krak!. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

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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