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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Kiki grow up?

2. What is Darisse's daughter's name?

3. What does Silas bring for Darisse in bed the morning after they have sex?

4. Which patient of Darisse's has advanced lung cancer?

5. What did Kiki's relatives suspect was the reason her marriage to Osman ended?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Darisse meet SIlas, the man she ends up dating after she realizes Claude has disappeared?

2. Why does Sally tell Teddy she is breaking off their affair?

3. What is Reyna's first reaction when Boyd tells her about the cigarette-smuggling plans?

4. Why do Boyd and his friends ask Reyna to drive one of the runs to Virginia to smuggle cigarettes?

5. What does Darisse do to try to win back Lionel's favor when he is upset with her?

6. Why does Kiki's Turkish boyfriend, who later becomes her husband, stop selling carpets?

7. What does Darisse tell Silas about where Jesuauna's present from Claude came from?

8. What does Kiki end up doing for a living after her own shop fails, and how does her family feel about it?

9. What was Reyna's real reason for wanting Kiki to stay with her and Oliver during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy?

10. What is Darisse's job and what is the reader's impression of how well she performs it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the advent of Hurricane Sandy spark a new phase in Reyna's and Kiki's relationship? Write an essay explaining the symbolism of the hurricane as a turning point for Reyna and Kiki.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing why Kiki is so excited when the three Germans - Dieter, Bruno, and Steffi - show up on Osman's family's farm in Turkey in 1977. Why do you think she ultimately decided not to take them up on their offer to her to travel with them?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing Reyna's changing attitudes towards Boyd and his friends' cigarette-smuggling scheme, from the time when Boyd first tells her about it (28) to when she has a last minute change of heart about driving the car for them on one of their runs (52). What are some of Reyna's main considerations for going along with, and then rejecting, the scheme?

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