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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Michel say was “orphaned” by the dictator’s departure (140)?
(a) International businessmen.
(b) Haiti’s poor.
(c) Haiti’s secret police.
(d) Business owners.

2. Why does Beatrice say she enjoyed making wedding dresses?
(a) Because she was proud of her work in the community.
(b) Because she liked keeping up the tradition her grandmother started.
(c) Because it allowed her to act like a mother to so many girls.
(d) Because when everyone looked at the dress, they saw her.

3. Where does Beatrice say the prison guard hides out?
(a) In empty storefronts.
(b) In people’s basements.
(c) In the alleys.
(d) Empty houses.

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

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

6. What advice had Aline’s boss given her for this interview?
(a) Do not get too cozy with the natives.
(b) Ask smart questions.
(c) Let her subject get comfortable and talk.
(d) Notice everything.

7. Where is Michel telling the story of this time in Haiti?
(a) Driving home with his son.
(b) In bed with his pregnant wife.
(c) In prison with other men.
(d) On the bus talking with a stranger.

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

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

10. 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 Brother Timonie at her father’s funeral service.
(d) By singing in her house when a funeral passed by.

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

12. 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.

13. What is the reality of Michel’s father’s whereabouts?
(a) His father lives across the street at the water station.
(b) His father died in a prison camp.
(c) His father is a macoute who lives in Port-au-Prince.
(d) His father fled to America when Michel was young.

14. What is Dany’s relationship with Tante Estina?
(a) She is his mother’s aunt.
(b) She is his father’s old friend.
(c) She is his father’s sister.
(d) She is his grandmother.

15. Who is Romain’s father?
(a) A prominent macoute.
(b) The water station owner.
(c) A rabble-rousing laborer.
(d) A local businessman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aline taste in Beatrice’s coffee?

2. Why does Claude say he is lucky?

3. What does Beatrice want to do before she starts her interview with Aline?

4. Who are the people Aline wants to write about?

5. Who does Freda say Brother Timonie was?

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