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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Tante Denise die of?
(a) She is shot in the crossfire in the gang violence of her neighborhood.
(b) Cancer.
(c) A massive stroke.
(d) A heart attack.

3. What does Danticat's father have to say about having only children?
(a) Only children are vulnerable.
(b) God did not make us with one eye.
(c) Only children are the happiest.
(d) Only children are spoiled.

4. Why does Joseph tell U.S. immigration officials he is requesting asylum?
(a) His religion is persecuted in Haiti.
(b) People burned his church and he fears for his life.
(c) He has grown tired of Haiti.
(d) He committed a political crime and can not go back to Haiti.

5. What complication does Danticat find out she has in her pregnancy?
(a) High blood pressure.
(b) Gestational diabetes.
(c) A low-lying placenta.
(d) Gallbladder irritation.

6. 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) Ellis Island.
(b) They were sent back to Haiti immediately.
(c) A state prison.
(d) Krome, a detention center.

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

8. What do some of the young men of the neighborhood demand of Joseph to make amends for what they think are his crimes?
(a) They demand all the drugs and medical supplies he has.
(b) They demand exorbitant amounts of money to cover the funeral costs of the neighbors who were shot by the riot police and UN soldiers.
(c) They demand that he smuggle them out of the country.
(d) They demand that he pray for them.

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

10. 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 is too old and ill to leave and start over.
(b) He can not leave the graves of his parents.
(c) Someone has to stay behind to receive letters and greet visiting family.
(d) He thinks he may run for office one day.

11. What does Bob tell Kelly and Karl is really going on with him and Danticat?
(a) They are really their cousins.
(b) They are really special Haitian security agents.
(c) They are really spies from space.
(d) They are really going back to Haiti in a few months.

12. What is Danticat's husband's name?
(a) Bob.
(b) Fedo.
(c) Rafael.
(d) Michael.

13. Who decides to go into Bel Air and help get Joseph to safety in the fall of 2004?
(a) Bob.
(b) Tante Zi.
(c) Maxo.
(d) Mira.

14. How does Joseph convince Maxo to leave him there in his house after all the violence in October 2004?
(a) He tells Maxo the neighbors might be capable of killing the children.
(b) He tells Maxo he had a terrible vision where Maxo is killed.
(c) He tells Maxo he will follow in a month's time.
(d) He gives Maxo a large sum of money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tante Denise think Marie Micheline really died from?

2. What does Uncle Joseph take medication for?

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

4. Where does Danticat take Joseph for his medical exam in 1983?

5. Why does Danticat sense that Bob eats so much during their first dinner with their parents in the United States?

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