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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 does the girl visit her mother?

2. Who tells the girl that her mother has died?

3. What is the girl’s last hope, in the story?

4. What do the prison guards suspect the girl’s mother of being?

5. What danger does the boy’s boat face?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the circumstances in which Guy and Lili live.

2. What news does Guy bring home, himself?

3. What news does Lili greet Guy with?

4. Why is the boy fleeing from Haiti?

5. What happens when the soldiers come for the girl’s neighbor?

6. What happens to the boy in the end of the story?

7. What is the significance of the hot-air balloon in A Wall of Fire Rising?

8. What is the American involvement in 1937?

9. Why does Lili leave Guy’s eyes open at the end of A Wall of Fire Rising?

10. Describe the girl’s pilgrimage to the Massacre River.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the importance of dead children in Krik? Krak!? How do children die, and what does their death mean—to the characters and also to the author, and the story that is told through the stories?

Essay Topic 2

Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What values does she hold dear? What are her hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think she is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

Essay Topic 3

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

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