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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marie Micheline tell Joseph when he comes to free her from her husband?
(a) She will never be able to repay him.
(b) She can not come home with him.
(c) He has given birth to her by freeing her.
(d) She wants to leave Ruth with him.

2. When do Danticat's parents reappear in Haiti again after leaving her with Joseph and Denise?
(a) October 1976.
(b) June 1980.
(c) September 1978.
(d) May 1981.

3. What age is Danticat when she moves in with Uncle Joseph and Tante Denise?
(a) 12.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

4. Who is Tante Denise's mother?
(a) Marie Micheline.
(b) Tante Zoe.
(c) Granme Melina.
(d) Granme Liliana.

5. What does Tante Denise do right before Danticat and Bob leave for the United States?
(a) Blesses them with holy water.
(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) Packs food for them to take on the airplane.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the American Consulate write to Joseph requesting that Danticat and Bob undergo a physical to see if they can travel to the United States?

2. What kind of stand does Tante Zi run in Haiti?

3. What do some of the cruel neighbors say to Joseph after his throat surgery?

4. Who asks Danticat's father, Mira, if he has enjoyed his life?

5. Who does Danticat's father run his car service with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Danticat react when she sees her pregnancy test is positive?

2. How does Uncle Joseph first meet Tante Denise?

3. Why does Danticat decide not to tell her extended family about her pregnancy right away?

4. Why does Joseph start to take the children in his house on simple errands with him following his laryngectomy?

5. What does Danticat remember most fondly about Marie Micheline's kindness towards her as a young child?

6. What does Danticat's mother give to her at the last possible minute at the airport to take with her on the plane?

7. What scary story does Granme Melina tell the children in Joseph's house in the section titled "Good-bye"?

8. What eventually happens with Marie Micheline's first husband, Pressoir?

9. In the section titled "Good-bye," how do the children determine that Granme Melina has died?

10. What does Danticat's brother Kelly recall when she tells him she is pregnant in the section titled "We're All Dying"?

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