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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Dany’s aunt coming from, when he arrives?
(a) A visit with friends.
(b) A funeral.
(c) A mass.
(d) A childbirth.

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

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

4. What name does Michel promise to give his unborn child?
(a) Regulus.
(b) Christophe.
(c) Romain.
(d) Tobin.

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

6. What does Aline see when she looks into the house Beatrice calls the prison guard’s house?
(a) A house with a no furniture.
(b) A house no one lives in.
(c) A house with small children.
(d) A house with students.

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

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

9. How does Aline characterize Beatrice’s state of mind to her editor?
(a) Lonely.
(b) Haunted.
(c) Nutty.
(d) Disturbed.

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

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

12. Where does Beatrice Saint Fort live?
(a) Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
(b) Far Rockaway, Queens.
(c) Léogâne, Haiti.
(d) Brooklyn, New York.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Estina lose her eyesight?

2. Who is the one who starts the others telling stories about their personal lives?

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

4. Where is Michel telling the story of this time in Haiti?

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

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