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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 is the name of the officer who took down all of Joseph's information for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol?
(a) Officer Zero.
(b) Officer Smith.
(c) Officer Sandrine.
(d) Officer Reyes.

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

3. What does Leone, Tante Denise's sister, say about the shooting outside Denise's funeral?
(a) Leone wonders why there was shooting since Denise was neither in the military or the police force.
(b) Leone says Denise would have been horrified at the shooting.
(c) Leone says the shooting is proof the neighborhood is unsafe now.
(d) Leone says the shooting was disrespectful.

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

5. What does the head of the neighborhood gang threaten to do to Joseph if he can not come up with the money they are asking for?
(a) Stab him.
(b) Cut his head off.
(c) Shoot him.
(d) Poison him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Marie Micheline die?

3. What disguise does Joseph wear to move between houses in Bel Air in October 2004?

4. Who helps make the arrangements for Tante Denise's funeral?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What factor about Danticat's pregnancy causes her some anxiety?

2. How does Marie Micheline die?

3. How does Danticat's brother Karl react to her when she first arrives in New York?

4. What happens to Joseph in Haiti in October 2004?

5. How does Tante Zi get Joseph out of hiding and safely to the airport in October 2004?

6. When Joseph visits New York in 1983, what life-changing device does he receive from the hospital?

7. In the section "Brother, I Can Speak," how does Danticat's father refer to Danticat and Bob in front of Joseph when he comes to visit in New York?

8. What does Danticat's father do for work in the United States, and what are some of his challenges on the job?

9. What does Danticat mistake the fire escape of her family's New York apartment for?

10. Why does Tante Zi tell Joseph he could not have escaped himself?

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