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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Aline say she learned was useful in her education?
(a) The similarity of cultures’ stories.
(b) The injustice of a psychology experiment.
(c) The beauty of the written word.
(d) The long history of injustices and violence in the Americas.

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

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

5. What does Denise Auguste’s nickname Ti Fanm mean?
(a) Little Woman.
(b) Little helper.
(c) Wife.
(d) Seamstress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dany get a sharp pain after walking for two hours?

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

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

4. What does Dany's pain while walking make him think of?

5. What group does Michel say he joined?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize Dany’s relationship with Denise Auguste?

2. Why does the main character of "Night Talkers" get three pieces of cloth to keep with him the rest of his life?

3. Who is the main character of the "Monkey Tails" chapter, and where is it set?

4. Who is the main character of the "The Funeral Singer" chapter, and where is it set?

5. Why does Claude say that he is the luckiest man in the world?

6. Why does Dany think that Claude is lucky?

7. What kind of insight does Aline give us into the authorial labor of writing the novel in which Aline herself appears?

8. What does the main character of "Night Talkers" do is his dream?

9. What is the significance of the song Brother Timonie?

10. Whose point of view is the "Night Talkers" chapter written from, and where is it set?

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