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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 narrator see this miracle as a sign of?

2. Why does the boy say that no one will mistake him and the others for Cuban, now?

3. Why did Guy and Lili keep their son close to them at the sugar mill?

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

5. What does her mother answer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lili leave Guy’s eyes open at the end of A Wall of Fire Rising?

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

3. What is the importance of Boukman’s speech in A Wall of Fire Rising?

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

5. What is the history of the Massacre River?

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

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

8. What is the history of the Madonna the girl carries?

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

10. Why is the boy fleeing from Haiti?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the importance of ‘day women’ and ‘night women’ in Krik? Krak!? How do these images or ideas relate to the other main ideas of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

What is the role of writing in Krik? Krak!? Who is responsible for story telling, and what kind of stories do they tell? What kind of stories are required, and what does the work of storytelling involve a person in? Using examples from the text, describe the importance of storytelling in Edwidge Danticat’s book of stories.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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