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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. How do Sophie and her grandmother react to Louise at the market?
2. What does Atie say she sometimes writes?
3. What is Louise selling on the side of the road?
4. What name does Sophie give her mother for the man she likes?
5. What is Atie like, according to Ifé?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens at Sophie's mother's apartment the weekend that Joseph, Sophie, and Brigitte drive there on the weekend?
2. What does Sophie's grandmother do when Sophie sits on the porch, watching a pack of rainbow butterflies?
3. What does Sophie's therapist tell Sophie after she explains her mother's condition?
4. One night Sophie's grandmother cooks beans and she and Sophie have a conversation about Sophie's husband. What do they talk about?
5. When Sophie is leaving in the van, she describes a sight called Guinea. What is Guinea?
6. What happens during the week before Sophie leaves to see her mother?
7. Sophie and her mother talk about their health in the plane on the way back to the United States. What starts the conversation and what do they say?
8. What happens when Sophie returns to Haiti for her mother's funeral?
9. What happens at the house of Sophie's grandmother after she and Atie have an argument about Atie's reading lessons?
10. What does Sophie do the first two months she is living in New York?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
Sex equals bad memories for both Sophie and her mother. Where is this displayed in the novel? Explain this motif for both Sophie and her mother. How do they compare?
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