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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. Who is the mob looking for, in Michel’s story?
(a) Macoutes.
(b) Government officials.
(c) Criminals.
(d) Business owners.
2. How old was Claude when he killed his father?
(a) 18.
(b) 9.
(c) 21.
(d) 14.
3. How long had the dictator ruled before he fled?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 11 years.
(c) 11 months.
(d) 26. years.
4. What advice had Aline’s boss given her for this interview?
(a) Do not get too cozy with the natives.
(b) Let her subject get comfortable and talk.
(c) Ask smart questions.
(d) Notice everything.
5. Why does Beatrice say she is retiring?
(a) She is tired.
(b) She cannot find good help.
(c) She cannot make a living any more.
(d) She wants to do something else.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did the prison guard torture Beatrice?
2. What does Beatrice say the women who come to her for wedding dresses call her?
3. What is Aline Cajuste’s position at the Haitian American Weekly?
4. What do people say to explain why Dany’s aunt died so shortly after his arrival?
5. How does Claude describe integrating back into his people’s community?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is the main character of the "The Funeral Singer" chapter, and where is it set?
2. Why does Dany think that Claude is lucky?
3. What kind of insight does Aline give us into the authorial labor of writing the novel in which Aline herself appears?
4. Why did Freda emigrate from Haiti to the U.S.?
5. Why does Claude say that he is the luckiest man in the world?
6. Why does Michel say he understood things he should have been too young to understand?
7. What does the main character of "Night Talkers" do is his dream?
8. What is the significance of the title of the "Monkey Tails" chapter?
9. What news is the main character of "Night Talkers" bringing with him?
10. What does Aline find when she investigates the house Beatrice called the Haitian prison guard’s house?
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