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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of days do Freda, Mariselle and Rézia raise their glasses to?
(a) Happy.
(b) Uncertain.
(c) Tumultuous.
(d) Secure.

3. What does Aline say she studied in school?
(a) American literature.
(b) French literature.
(c) Caribbean history.
(d) World literature.

4. How old was the dictator when he fled?
(a) 37.
(b) 44.
(c) 54.
(d) 34.

5. In "Monkey Tails," where does Michel say they should go, to see what is going on?
(a) The streets.
(b) The watch tower.
(c) The radio.
(d) The city center.

6. Why were prison guards called dew breakers?
(a) They would come for you early in the morning.
(b) They would break so many bones when they tortured people.
(c) They would come for you when the dew was settling.
(d) The pain of torture would make sweat pop out on people’s skin like dew.

7. How does Beatrice think the prison guard keeps finding her?
(a) She thinks her assistance lets him know.
(b) She thinks he has friends in the post office.
(c) She always announces her changes of address to her clients.
(d) She believes there are spies in the Haitian community.

8. What group does Michel say he joined?
(a) The crowd of refugee women and children.
(b) The mob of people looking for people to murder.
(c) The men trying to turn off the water at Monsieur Christophe’s water station.
(d) The crowd of men defending the town’s police station from looters.

9. How old was Claude when he killed his father?
(a) 9.
(b) 21.
(c) 14.
(d) 18.

10. Who are the people Aline wants to write about?
(a) Haitians who hold the agony of Haitian experiences.
(b) The prison guards who traumatized Haitians.
(c) Children of Haitians who were forced to flee Haiti.
(d) Priests who hold the Haitian community together.

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

12. What kept Dany from making his presence known when he saw the dew breaker?
(a) The logistics of getting away with murder.
(b) The threat of retaliation from the man’s family.
(c) The dread of having murder on his conscience.
(d) The fear of killing the wrong person.

13. What is Aline Cajuste’s position at the Haitian American Weekly?
(a) Intern.
(b) Editor.
(c) Reporter.
(d) Producer.

14. Why does Estina call for Claude to meet Dany?
(a) So Claude can learn English.
(b) So Dany can translate for Claude.
(c) So Claude can have a brother-figure.
(d) So they can speak English together.

15. Where does Freda meet Rézia and Mariselle?
(a) In church.
(b) In class to get their GED.
(c) In Rézia’s restaurant.
(d) In Freda’s parents’ house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dany have to make excuses when he sees people in his aunt’s town?

2. Who does Aline run into when she is looking into the house she thinks belongs to the Haitian prison guard?

3. What does Beatrice say the women who come to her for wedding dresses call her?

4. What does Denise Auguste’s nickname Ti Fanm mean?

5. What name does Michel promise to give his unborn child?

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