Book of the Dead by Edwidge Danticat

What is the setting of the story?

• Haiti

• New York

• Floridia

• Ohio

What does Annie learn about her father?

• That he has never really respected her art

• That he tricked her mother into marrying her

• That he wishes she were a better daughter, more like Gabrielle

• That he was a part of a Haitian dictatorship, not a victim of it

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What is the purpose of Annie and her father's trip to Florida?

• To deliver a piece of Annie's artwork to a buyer

• To meet her father's hero, a Haitian television star

• To giver her father a chance to tell Annie the truth

• To take a much needed vacation

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Why does the narrator's father lie about his past?

• The sculpture had termites

• The sculpture reminded him of the people he hurt in prison

• The sculpture was ugly

• The sculpture reminded him of being a prisoner

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What was the father's role in prison?

• Prisoner

• Warden

• Cook

• Prison Guard

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What did the father do to the sculpture?

• Sold it to the wrong person

• Kept it in his office

• Threw it in a pond

• Forgot it on the side of the road

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Where do the narrator's parents meet?

• Outside a prison

• An apartment

• On an airplane

• When they went to sell the sculpture

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Why do the narrator and her father go to Florida?

• To move the narrator into college

• To find a new home

• To find a long lost sibling

• To sell a sculpture

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1. Who is NOT one of the main characters in the story?

• mother

• father

• narrator

• Mr. Flavio Salinas

Where is the father originally from?

• Haiti

• New York

• Floridia

• Ohio