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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 does Sophie drink when she and Joseph go out in Long Island?

2. How long does Joseph stay in Providence after the incident between Sophie and her mother?

3. What is Louise selling on the side of the road?

4. How long do Sophie and her aunt sit in a van on their way to Sophie's grandmother?

5. What does Sophie's aunt learn to do while Sophie is away?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sophie's mother come to visit in Haiti?

2. What has changed in Sophie's life when the third book opens with Chapter 13?

3. What does Sophie do the first two months she is living in New York?

4. What name does Sophie make up for her boyfriend and how does her mother react?

5. What happens when Sophie asks Atie if Brigitte can sleep in her room?

6. How does Sophie feel after the meeting at her sexual phobia group?

7. Sophie asks her mother why she put her through those tests. What does Sophie's mother answer?

8. One night Sophie's grandmother cooks beans and she and Sophie have a conversation about Sophie's husband. What do they talk about?

9. What happens during the week before Sophie leaves to see her mother?

10. What happens the second time Sophie's mother tries to test her and she fails?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dreams are another big theme in "Breath, Eyes, Memory." Who is having dreams? What do the dreams symbolize? Compare and contrast each character's dreams.

Essay Topic 2

The four main characters in "Breath, Eyes, Memory" are Sophie, her mother, her grandmother, and her aunt. They represent females of different generations in the same family. Compare and contrast the relationships between these four women and describe how these relationships develop over the course of the book.

Essay Topic 3

Atie's behavior changes over the course of the book. Explain the changes that happen to her. Compare how she behaves during the two different periods. How does she behave while raising Sophie? What does she do when Sophie returns to Haiti? What does Ifé think about Atie? Who's Atie's friend?

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