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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. In which language does Sophie's mother often speak to the people passing by?
3. In the story about the woman who stopped bleeding, who transforms the woman?
4. How old is Joseph when Sophie meets him?
5. Why does Sophie have sex with Joseph on their wedding night?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens in Chapter 14 when Sophie and her aunt Atie walk home after Sophie arrives with a van?
2. What happens between Sophie and Joseph when she pulls into their house?
3. What did Atie and her sister Martine do in Port-au-Prince when they were young?
4. What does Sophie initially talk about with her therapist in Chapter 32?
5. Dessalines' death gets Sophie thinking about the Macoutes. What does she think about the Macoutes and how is that related to her mother?
6. Describe the events surrounding the Mother's Day card Sophie intends to give her Aunt Atie.
7. What happens during the week before Sophie leaves to see her mother?
8. What happens when an older Sophie first arrives at her grandmother's house?
9. Sophie asks her grandmother why mothers test their children. What does her grandmother answer?
10. Sophie and Atie have a conversation on the steps when Atie comes home one night. What does Atie talk about?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sophie's priorities and personality change over the course of the book. Compare the changes she experiences through the four books.
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
One of the themes explored throughout this book is the inequality between men and women in Haiti during the time in which it is set. Give three examples and explain the inequality.
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