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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old is Michel while he is narrating the story in the present moment of the story in "Monkey Tails"?
(a) 47.
(b) 26.
(c) 30.
(d) 37.

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

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

5. How old is Michel in story told in the "Monkey Tails" chapter?
(a) 12.
(b) 37.
(c) 30.
(d) 14.

6. What does Freda say the president of Haiti would throw from his car at New Year’s?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Money.
(c) Pictures of himself.
(d) Food.

7. Where is Rézia’s restaurant?
(a) Jersey City.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Queens.
(d) Manhattan.

8. What does Freda say she is going to do when she goes back to Haiti?
(a) Work for the government.
(b) Open a school.
(c) Join a militia.
(d) Get revenge against the macoutes.

9. When did Estina lose her eyesight?
(a) In a protest in Port-au-Prince.
(b) At birth.
(c) The night Dany’s parents were killed.
(d) In an attack by macoutes.

10. 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 knows he is in pain.
(d) He did not feel insulted by what Dany said.

11. Who is the mob looking for, in Michel’s story?
(a) Business owners.
(b) Criminals.
(c) Government officials.
(d) Macoutes.

12. How long had the dictator ruled before he fled?
(a) 11 months.
(b) 26. years.
(c) 15 years.
(d) 11 years.

13. How old does Michel say he feels, in the story he is telling?
(a) 48.
(b) 20.
(c) 34.
(d) 6.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice had Aline’s boss given her for this interview?

2. Who does Freda say Brother Timonie was?

3. What does Dany tell his aunt about in his dream?

4. Where does Freda meet Rézia and Mariselle?

5. Where does Beatrice say the prison guard hides out?

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