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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. Why does Freda say she left Haiti?
(a) Because the macoutes were getting aggressive in her neighborhood.
(b) Because her mother wanted her to have more opportunity.
(c) Because she refused to sing at the national palace.
(d) Because she feared for her life if she stayed.

2. What is the saying of Voltaire’s that Romain quotes to Michel?
(a) The unexamined life is not worth living.
(b) Blood is the price of eating sugar in Europe.
(c) To thine own self be true and you cannot be false to any man.
(d) Know yourself and you will know the world of the gods.

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

4. 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.

5. Who is the one who starts the others telling stories about their personal lives?
(a) Mariselle’s husband.
(b) Freda.
(c) Rézia.
(d) Mariselle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Freda meet Rézia and Mariselle?

2. What does Mariselle say President Kennedy’s widow Jacky Kennedy did to sadness?

3. How does Beatrice indicate the residents of the houses on her block?

4. Why does the narrator says that Claude is luckier than most?

5. What group does Michel say he joined?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the action that takes place at Monsieur Christophe’s water station during the rioting?

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

3. What does Beatrice say is the secret to her coffee?

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

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

6. What news is the main character of "Night Talkers" bringing with him?

7. What does Aline find when she investigates the house Beatrice called the Haitian prison guard’s house?

8. What does Beatrice say appeals to hear about making wedding dresses?

9. Why does Michel say he understood things he should have been too young to understand?

10. What does Freda say her father wished would happen on New Year’s Eve, in the years before he was arrested?

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