SparkNotes: Breath, Eyes, Memory: Quiz

Where does Sophie spend the early years of her life?

(A) Croix-des-Rosets, Haiti

(B) Port-au-Prince, Haiti

(C) Brooklyn, New York

(D) Manhattan, New York

Who cares for Sophie during her childhood?

(A) Grandmè Ifé

(B) Sophie's father

(C) Tante Atie

(D) Louise

Who is Tante Atie?

(A) Sophie's grandmother

(B) Sophie's hired nanny

(C) Sophie's father's sister

(D) Sophie's mother's sister

Why does it make Tante Atie sad to watch Monsieur Augustin with his wife?

(A) Because Monsieur Augustin was once engaged to Tante Atie

(B) Because Tante Atie always, secretly, loved Monsieur Augustin from afar

(C) Because Monsieur Augustin reminds her of her own dead husband

(D) Because she worries that he is not making his wife as happy as she deserves to be

How did Sophie's mother, Martine, become pregnant with Sophie?

(A) She conceived Sophie on her wedding night

(B) She was raped in a cane field by a macoute

(C) She became pregnant after sleeping with her high school sweetheart

(D) She adopted

How old is Sophie when she arrives in New York for the first time?

(A) Eighteen

(B) Twelve

(C) Six

(D) An infant

When Sophie arrives in New York, her appearance reminds Martine of which of the following?

(A) Herself at the same age

(B) Tante Atie

(C) Grandmè Ifé

(D) The unseen face of Martine's attacker, Sophie's father

Sophie tells Marc, Martine's lover, that her ambition is to become which of the following?

(A) A doctor

(B) A dactylo (secretary)

(C) A jazz musician

(D) A mother

Who are the Marassas?

(A) A species of butterfly native to Haiti

(B) A Haitian gang in New York

(C) Mythical lovers who were so close as to be indistinguishable

(D) Military agents responsible for killing a coal-seller in the marketplace

As an adult, Sophie discovers that she has which eating disorder?

(A) Bulimia

(B) Anorexia

(C) Anemia

(D) Chocolate cravings

When Sophie's mother "tests" her, she is checking to see which of the following?

(A) Whether Sophie knows her multiplication tables

(B) Whether Sophie still understands Creole

(C) Whether Sophie is still a virgin

(D) Whether Sophie can recite the rosary

When Sophie finally fails her mother's "test," it is because of which of the following?

(A) She has torn her hymen playing sports

(B) She has slept with Joseph, the man next door

(C) Her mother is distracted and does not administer the test properly

(D) She has impaled herself on a pestle for the explicit purpose of failing the test

Erzulie is which of the following?

(A) Sophie's best childhood friend.

(B) Sophie's mother

(C) Sophie's sister

(D) A Haitian goddess and loa

The Tonton Macoutes are which of the following?

(A) A powerful Haitian family

(B) Duvalier's secret police

(C) Anyone who does not speak Creole

(D) A tribe of pacifists who protest Haiti's military occupation

How does Sophie meet Joseph?

(A) She hears him playing his saxophone in a nightclub

(B) He sends her postcards from Providence

(C) He is her musicology professor

(D) He lives next door and asks one day to use her telephone

During Sophie's childhood, Sophie and Atie receive news from Martine via which of the following?

(A) Cassette tape

(B) Letter

(C) Word-of-mouth

(D) Carrier pigeon

How does Sophie's mother, Martine, die?

(A) She commits suicide by stabbing herself in the stomach seventeen times

(B) She dies at the clinic during an abortion

(C) She commits suicide by taking sleeping pills

(D) She is killed by Marc

Who do the Macoutes kill in the Croix-des-Rosets marketplace?

(A) Louise, Atie's friend

(B) Dessalines, the coal-seller

(C) Man Grace, Louise's mother

(D) A beggar whose name no one knows

Sophie's family name, Caco, is also which of the following?

(A) The name of the village where Sophie's grandmother lives

(B) The name of a French noble house

(C) The name of a strikingly red bird

(D) The Creole word for daffodil

When does Sophie first return to Haiti?

(A) As a young teenager, unmarried and pregnant

(B) In her late teens, as a new wife and mother

(C) As an adult, with her mother, for Grandmè Ifé's funeral

(D) Never

Doubling can be used in which of the following ways?

(A) Not being present in one's body while something unpleasant is happening

(B) Speaking English while continuing to think in French Creole

(C) Attempting to love two people at the same time

(D) Saying one thing and meaning another

What outfit does Sophie choose for Martine's burial?

(A) Her wedding dress

(B) A white robe

(C) A dress the color of daffodils

(D) A bright-red, two-piece suit

Where do Sophie and Joseph live?

(A) Providence, R.I.

(B) Brooklyn

(C) Manhattan

(D) Port-au-Prince

Who finally teaches Tante Atie how to read?

(A) Monsieur Augustin

(B) Louise

(C) Grandmè Ifé

(D) Sophie

In her old age and loneliness, Tante Atie turns increasingly to which of the following?

(A) Alcohol

(B) Cigarettes

(C) Opium

(D) God

Louise's sudden departure is attributed to which of the following?

(A) Having eloped with a Macoute

(B) Having robbed a bank

(C) Having become pregnant

(D) Having saved enough money to make a trip to America

Where is Martine buried?

(A) Brooklyn

(B) Croix-des-Rosets

(C) La Nouvelle Dame Marie

(D) Providence