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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 say her father regrets?

2. Why do the guards make the women dash themselves with cold water at night?

3. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?

4. What does one of the mothers come home with, when she visits the prison where the ‘radio six’ are kept?

5. What does the girl narrator see this miracle as a sign of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Guy get angry at his son?

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

3. Describe the prison where the mother is kept.

4. What are the mood and tone of this story?

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

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

7. What is it like on the ship the boy is sailing in?

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

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

10. Describe the circumstances in which Guy and Lili live.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the difference between city and country in Krik? Krak!? How does Edwidge Danticat characterize each of these environments, and how does she define the differences that distinguish them?

Essay Topic 2

How would you rewrite Krik? Krak!, if you were to adapt it and make it your own? What part of the book would you preserve? What part would you change? Explain your motivation for the changes you would make.

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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