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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: The Gift.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anika really want to draw but does not know how?
(a) Portraits.
(b) Lovers.
(c) Haiti.
(d) Earthquakes.

2. What is Nadia's job?
(a) Actor.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Scientist.
(d) Writer.

3. When asked where she contracted the virus, what is Melisande's answer?
(a) She claims she never had sex with anyone.
(b) She says she was raped.
(c) She says she got it from drug use.
(d) The narrator's husband.

4. What is Nadia's father's name?
(a) Maurice.
(b) William.
(c) Charles.
(d) James.

5. How old is Melisande?
(a) 40 or 41.
(b) 17 or 16.
(c) 21 or 22.
(d) 30 or 31.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Maurice's wife's job before she moved back to Haiti with Maurice?

2. What does Maurice's wife give Nadia to eat when she gets to Miami?

3. What holiday do Thomas and Anika meet up?

4. How old is Wesley?

5. How old was Thomas when he moved to New York from Haiti?

(see the answer key)

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