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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dany’s relationship with Tante Estina?
(a) She is his mother’s aunt.
(b) She is his father’s old friend.
(c) She is his father’s sister.
(d) She is his grandmother.

2. Where did Freda grow up?
(a) Port-au-Prince.
(b) Léogâne.
(c) Beau Jour.
(d) Brooklyn.

3. Why does Freda sing Brother Timonie for her friends?
(a) To honor her father.
(b) To remind them of home.
(c) To show them her funeral song.
(d) To show off.

4. Why does Freda say she doodled in her notebook?
(a) To act out the fights she could not have in reality.
(b) To create figures to keep her company.
(c) To frighten herself.
(d) To take out her aggressions on someone.

5. Where does Dany get a sharp pain after walking for two hours?
(a) His feet.
(b) His stomach.
(c) His side.
(d) His head.

6. What condition does Freda say her father was in when he came back after time in prison?
(a) He could no longer stand upright.
(b) His hands were broken and unusable.
(c) The soles of his feet had been stripped of skin.
(d) He did not have a tooth in his mouth.

7. Where does Mariselle get a job after she completes her degree?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) A retail store.
(c) A big accounting business.
(d) An art gallery.

8. How does Claude describe integrating back into his people’s community?
(a) Being a puzzle the people are putting together.
(b) Being a fragment of a manuscript, and hearing the rest.
(c) Being a lost child and coming home.
(d) Being sick and getting better.

9. Where does Beatrice say the prison guard hides out?
(a) In empty storefronts.
(b) Empty houses.
(c) In the alleys.
(d) In people’s basements.

10. Who does Michel say was “orphaned” by the dictator’s departure (140)?
(a) Haiti’s poor.
(b) International businessmen.
(c) Business owners.
(d) Haiti’s secret police.

11. Whose hand has the dictator transferred power to, now that he is leaving?
(a) The business community.
(b) The people.
(c) The military.
(d) The career politicians.

12. What is the story about where Michel’s father was lost?
(a) In an industrial accident.
(b) In a fishing accident at sea.
(c) In something political.
(d) To illness.

13. Why does the narrator says that Claude is luckier than most?
(a) He can talk about his nightmares openly.
(b) He lives in such a gorgeous place.
(c) He has been forgiven for his sins.
(d) He has not suffered very much.

14. Why did Claude kill his father?
(a) He had an outburst of anger.
(b) His gang required it.
(c) His father was beating him.
(d) His father had confiscated his drugs.

15. Why does Beatrice say she enjoyed making wedding dresses?
(a) Because it allowed her to act like a mother to so many girls.
(b) Because she was proud of her work in the community.
(c) Because she liked keeping up the tradition her grandmother started.
(d) Because when everyone looked at the dress, they saw her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beatrice think the prison guard keeps finding her?

2. How old is Michel while he is narrating the story in the present moment of the story in "Monkey Tails"?

3. What do people say to explain why Dany’s aunt died so shortly after his arrival?

4. What group does Michel say he joined?

5. What is the mob doing to people it captures?

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