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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Freda says she got her start as a funeral singer?
(a) By singing at a distant relative’s funeral.
(b) By singing Brother Timonie at her father’s funeral service.
(c) By singing in her house when a funeral passed by.
(d) By singing in a school choir.

5. What does Dany tell his aunt about in his dream?
(a) Finding other people who knew the dew breaker.
(b) Standing over the dew breaker where he slept.
(c) Finding where the dew breaker lived.
(d) Murdering the dew breaker in his sleep.

6. 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 a no furniture.
(d) A house with students.

7. What is Rézia’s horror story from Haiti?
(a) She was a prostitute who was abused by macoutes.
(b) She was beaten by a mob who mistook her for someone else.
(c) She was tortured in prison for stealing a loaf of bread.
(d) She was raised in a brothel where she was raped.

8. 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) The soles of his feet had been stripped of skin.
(c) His hands were broken and unusable.
(d) He did not have a tooth in his mouth.

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

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

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

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

13. Who does Freda say Brother Timonie was?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A politician who was taken by the macoutes.
(c) A sailor famous for his exploits.
(d) A fisherman who got lost at sea.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Michel in story told in the "Monkey Tails" chapter?

3. How does Aline characterize Beatrice’s state of mind to her editor?

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

5. Why does Freda say she left Haiti?

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