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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. What was Danticat's first experience of intense jealousy?
(a) Seeing how Joseph seemed to prefer Marie Micheline to her.
(b) Seeing how her father doted on her brother Bob.
(c) Seeing how her mother preferred all of her brothers to her.
(d) Seeing her mother and Bob asleep, cuddled together, when Bob was a baby.

2. What does Tante Denise do right before Danticat and Bob leave for the United States?
(a) Packs food for them to take on the airplane.
(b) Gives them each letters for every day of the year they will be gone.
(c) Kisses them and runs into her room, unable to bear watching them leave.
(d) Blesses them with holy water.

3. Where does an immigration agent tell Danticat that Joseph and Maxo were taken to in the fall of 2004 upon their arrival in the United States?
(a) They were sent back to Haiti immediately.
(b) Ellis Island.
(c) A state prison.
(d) Krome, a detention center.

4. What does Danticat's father give her on her second day in the United States?
(a) A notebook.
(b) A typewriter.
(c) A phone.
(d) A fountain pen.

5. Where does Joseph stay when he first flees his house in October 2004?
(a) With Maxo.
(b) With Mira.
(c) With a neighbor called Ferna.
(d) With Tante Zi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marie Micheline tell Joseph when he comes to free her from her husband?

2. Why do some of Joseph's neighbors turn on him so violently after October 24, 2004?

3. Where do Maxo and the rest of Joseph's family reluctantly leave Bel Air for in October 2004?

4. What does Mira say he would have liked to have done if he did not drive a taxi?

5. What is the welcome meal that Danticat's parents cook for her and Bob when they arrive in the United States?

(see the answer key)

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