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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Aline taste in Beatrice’s coffee?
(a) Spices.
(b) Spirits.
(c) Lime.
(d) Vanilla.
2. What is Rézia’s horror story from Haiti?
(a) She was a prostitute who was abused by macoutes.
(b) She was tortured in prison for stealing a loaf of bread.
(c) She was beaten by a mob who mistook her for someone else.
(d) She was raised in a brothel where she was raped.
3. What is the reality of Michel’s father’s whereabouts?
(a) His father fled to America when Michel was young.
(b) His father is a macoute who lives in Port-au-Prince.
(c) His father lives across the street at the water station.
(d) His father died in a prison camp.
4. What does Aline see when she looks into the house Beatrice calls the prison guard’s house?
(a) A house with small children.
(b) A house no one lives in.
(c) A house with students.
(d) A house with a no furniture.
5. Where does Aline think about going, after her interview with Beatrice?
(a) Back to the office.
(b) Back home to her parents.
(c) To work in Haiti.
(d) To school in Haiti.
6. 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.
7. Why does Claude accept Dany’s apology so quickly?
(a) He does not want the obligation to impose guilt.
(b) He did not notice what Dany did, that he is apologizing for.
(c) He did not feel insulted by what Dany said.
(d) He knows he is in pain.
8. What is Aline Cajuste’s position at the Haitian American Weekly?
(a) Intern.
(b) Producer.
(c) Reporter.
(d) Editor.
9. What condition does Freda say her father was in when he came back after time in prison?
(a) He did not have a tooth in his mouth.
(b) His hands were broken and unusable.
(c) He could no longer stand upright.
(d) The soles of his feet had been stripped of skin.
10. How long had the dictator ruled before he fled?
(a) 11 months.
(b) 26. years.
(c) 11 years.
(d) 15 years.
11. Why does Freda say she left Haiti?
(a) Because she feared for her life if she stayed.
(b) Because the macoutes were getting aggressive in her neighborhood.
(c) Because she refused to sing at the national palace.
(d) Because her mother wanted her to have more opportunity.
12. How does Freda says she got her start as a funeral singer?
(a) By singing at a distant relative’s funeral.
(b) By singing in a school choir.
(c) By singing in her house when a funeral passed by.
(d) By singing Brother Timonie at her father’s funeral service.
13. Why does the narrator says that Claude is luckier than most?
(a) He lives in such a gorgeous place.
(b) He has been forgiven for his sins.
(c) He can talk about his nightmares openly.
(d) He has not suffered very much.
14. Who is Romain’s father?
(a) A rabble-rousing laborer.
(b) A local businessman.
(c) A prominent macoute.
(d) The water station owner.
15. Where does Dany get a sharp pain after walking for two hours?
(a) His side.
(b) His feet.
(c) His stomach.
(d) His head.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the saying of Voltaire’s that Romain quotes to Michel?
2. Where is Dany’s aunt coming from, when he arrives?
3. How old was the dictator when he fled?
4. What is the mob doing to people it captures?
5. What kept Dany from making his presence known when he saw the dew breaker?
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