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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 miracle does Nineteen Thirty-Seven start with?

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

3. What does Guy ask for when he comes home?

4. Whose name is no one mentioning, according to the girl?

5. Who tells the girl that her mother has died?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is the boy fleeing from Haiti?

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

4. Describe the girl’s trip to visit her mother in prison.

5. What is the American involvement in 1937?

6. What is the history of the Massacre River?

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

8. How does the boy in Children of the Sea describe his love for the girl?

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

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

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 2

Who is the audience for Krik? Krak!? What is the ideal reader for Krik? Krak! likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

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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