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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. How does Michel characterize his mother?
(a) Diplomatic and fair.
(b) Stern and guarded.
(c) Loquacious and animated.
(d) Open and loving.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the one who starts the others telling stories about their personal lives?

2. How old was Claude when he killed his father?

3. How does Denise Auguste respond when Dany thanks her?

4. Who does Michel say was “orphaned” by the dictator’s departure (140)?

5. How does Freda say she would introduce herself if she could?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Dany think that Claude is lucky?

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

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

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

8. Why did Freda emigrate from Haiti to the U.S.?

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

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

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