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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What story does Tante Denise tell Danticat the last time Danticat visits her in Haiti?
(a) The Angel of Death and Father God.
(b) The Snake and the Badger.
(c) The Old Goat and the Young Ram.
(d) The House With the Golden Windows.

3. What does Uncle Joseph take medication for?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Liver disease.
(c) High blood pressure and inflamed prostate.
(d) Stroke prevention.

4. How does Joseph look different to Danticat when she meets him at the airport in 1983?
(a) He looks ill.
(b) He has gained some weight and somehow looks shorter.
(c) He looks taller and stronger.
(d) He looks very thin.

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

6. What do the neighborhood gangs and the neighbors do to Joseph's house?
(a) Paint it with graffiti.
(b) Loot it.
(c) Burn it down.
(d) Load it with filth so it is uninhabitable.

7. Why does Joseph choose not to use his voice box often during the last days of October 2004?
(a) It broke.
(b) He is forbidden to use it by his doctor.
(c) It will draw attention, and he is trying to lay low because the neighborhood gangs are out to get him.
(d) He ran out of batteries.

8. Where do Maxo and the rest of Joseph's family reluctantly leave Bel Air for in October 2004?
(a) Port-au-Prince.
(b) Leogane.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) New York.

9. Who is the neighbor that Joseph hears was thrown off the roof for trying to save the church's generator from thieves?
(a) Betrand.
(b) Mou Zoul.
(c) Gigi.
(d) Ferna.

10. Which airline does Danticat call in the fall of 2004 to try to get information about Joseph?
(a) Virgin Airlines.
(b) American Airlines.
(c) Norwegian Air.
(d) United Airlines.

11. How many letters does Danticat write on her typewriter to Uncle Joseph?
(a) One.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) A dozen.
(d) Thousands.

12. Who took Joseph and Maxo to the airport in Haiti in the fall of 2004?
(a) Anne.
(b) Man Jou.
(c) Tante Zi.
(d) Ferna.

13. What does the giant velvet painting in Danticat's childhood apartment depict?
(a) The French Rvolution.
(b) George Washington and the cherry tree.
(c) The Crucifixtion.
(d) The Last Supper.

14. How does Marie Micheline die?
(a) She dies in childbirth.
(b) She dies of cancer.
(c) She reportedly dies of a heart attack in the midst of a violent outbreak in her neighborhood.
(d) She is shot.

15. Who is gathered in Joseph's house on the morning of October 24, 2004?
(a) His congregation.
(b) Many of Joseph's family members, including his son and grandchildren.
(c) Foreign doctors.
(d) His students.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tante Denise known for wearing throughout her life?

2. What does Danticat think her bedclothes in the United States smell like?

3. What does Leone, Tante Denise's sister, say about the shooting outside Denise's funeral?

4. Who calls Danticat to tell her where Joseph is in the fall of 2004, after she is worried that she has not heard from him when he should have arrived in the United States?

5. What does the quote that Danticat uses to start Part Two of the book say that a brother is born for?

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