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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (pages 170 - 224).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helps make the arrangements for Tante Denise's funeral?
(a) Danticat's cousin Richard.
(b) American missionaries from the church.
(c) Pressoir.
(d) A neighbor named Fernal.

2. Where does Danticat take Joseph for his medical exam in 1983?
(a) Cooks County Hospital.
(b) Kings County Hospital.
(c) A Haitian herbal clinic.
(d) Mount Sinai Hospital.

3. What does Mira tell the children about the fire escape?
(a) It is a very American thing.
(b) It has magical powers.
(c) Never to go out on it.
(d) It is completely unnecessary.

4. In Granme Melina's story about hell, how is hell defined?
(a) As the thing you fear the most.
(b) As a fire with no relief.
(c) As total isolation.
(d) As other people.

5. Why does Joseph tell Danticat he and Tante Denise will not choose to leave Haiti despite all the violence in the early 1990s?
(a) He thinks he may run for office one day.
(b) Someone has to stay behind to receive letters and greet visiting family.
(c) He can not leave the graves of his parents.
(d) He is too old and ill to leave and start over.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Liline say to Danticat and Bob when they leave for the United States?

2. Why are Tante Denise and Uncle Joseph so upset with the neighbors across the street in 1974?

3. Where does Joseph stay when he first flees his house in October 2004?

4. What do some of the young men of the neighborhood demand of Joseph to make amends for what they think are his crimes?

5. What does Bob tell Kelly and Karl is really going on with him and Danticat?

(see the answer key)

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