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

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

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

4. Who are the people Aline wants to write about?
(a) Priests who hold the Haitian community together.
(b) Haitians who hold the agony of Haitian experiences.
(c) Children of Haitians who were forced to flee Haiti.
(d) The prison guards who traumatized Haitians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Freda?

2. What kept Dany from making his presence known when he saw the dew breaker?

3. How old was the dictator when he fled?

4. How does Claude describe integrating back into his people’s community?

5. What is the mob doing to people it captures?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the significance of the title of the "Monkey Tails" chapter?

4. What does Beatrice ultimately tell us about the character of Ka’s father?

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

6. How does Danticat characterize the events in the streets of Port-au-Prince?

7. Under what conditions did Freda’s father disappear?

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

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

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

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