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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. What is Melisande diagnosed with?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Zika.
(c) AIDS.
(d) Lupus.

2. Who is Xavier?
(a) The narrator's son.
(b) The narrator's husband.
(c) Melisande's boyfriend.
(d) Babette's husband.

3. Where did the narrator of "The Port-au-Prince Marriage Special" go to graduate school?
(a) California.
(b) New York.
(c) Haiti.
(d) Miami.

4. Where does Thomas reveal he has been for the past few months?
(a) A nuthouse.
(b) Staying with his parents.
(c) With another woman.
(d) Vacation.

5. What does Anika promise Thomas in order to get him to meet up with her?
(a) A sexual encounter.
(b) A gift.
(c) She'll reveal the secret she's been keeping from him.
(d) She'll pay him back the money she owes him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nadia's job?

2. What is Melisande holding at the end of "The Port-au-Prince Marriage Special"?

3. What does Thomas smell like when he and Anika meet up?

4. What book do Nadia's students write about?

5. What does Olivia do the first night she meets Blaise?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the earthquake in Haiti impact Thomas's life?

2. What is the job that the narrator and her husband have?

3. Who was Dede swindled in the past?

4. Why does Nadia not know her father, in Section 2?

5. According to Blaise in Section 1, what happens to Olivia?

6. Why is the Canadian doctor who Melisande goes to first concerned about Melisande?

7. How does the chapter 'The Gift' get its name?

8. How does Elsie describe Olivia when she first meets and becomes friends with her in Section 1?

9. What do the narrator and Babette talk about when they meet?

10. How does Nadia describe her father's wife?

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