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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What has arrived for the family the day an outsider joins for supper?
2. What does Joseph ask Sophie when he comes home from touring the second time?
3. What question does Joseph ask Sophie when he tells her he is leaving forever?
4. Why does Sophie get up early in the morning in Chapter 16?
5. How does Sophie feel after eating beans for supper?
Short Essay Questions
1. One night Sophie's grandmother cooks beans and she and Sophie have a conversation about Sophie's husband. What do they talk about?
2. What does Atie do instead of going to Louise's house one night now that Sophie's mother is in town?
3. Sophie and her grandmother eat their dinner outside in the yard, watching a light move back and forth in the distance. What does this light mean? What happens to it?
4. What happens in when Sophie comes home after talking to her therapist about her mother in Chapter 35?
5. Two special events happen during dinner in Chapter 20. Which two events are different than other nights?
6. What does Sophie initially talk about with her therapist in Chapter 32?
7. What does Sophie do for herself and for her baby in the morning, in Chapter 16?
8. What happens in Chapter 14 when Sophie and her aunt Atie walk home after Sophie arrives with a van?
9. Why does Sophie's mother come to visit in Haiti?
10. One night, Sophie gets ready for bed and hears her grandmother dreaming. What does Sophie ask her daughter after she noticed the dreams of her grandmother?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The Haitian government is violent and the Haitian people are fearful of it. This theme appears several times over the course of the book. Where is this displayed in "Breath, Eyes, Memory?" Give three examples of the fear and/or the violent regime.
Essay Topic 2
Poverty is a theme that is mentioned a few times in "Breath, Eyes, Memory." Where in the book is this theme displayed? Give three examples of how you know Haitian people are poor.
Essay Topic 3
Edwidge Danticat set the book in Haiti and in the United States. Why did she set the book in these places and what is her goal with this book? Did she achieve that goal?
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