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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When he finds her, she repeatedly refuses service to him. Why?
(a) She does not want to help him.
(b) She does not trust him.
(c) The spirits have not come to her to explain how to treat the boy.
(d) She does not believe she is capable of helping him.

2. Rapelle is told in the dream that she will be able to do what?
(a) Help him find his son.
(b) Protect his son.
(c) Help to cure his ailing son.
(d) Give him a son.

3. What does Philo not want to do?
(a) Leave Haiti.
(b) Take on the responsibility.
(c) Help others.
(d) Put a curse on others.

4. What happens to a person who catches a glimpse of her beneath the water that reaches out to touch her?
(a) He or she goes deaf.
(b) He or she is blinded.
(c) He or she loses his or her mind.
(d) He or she is taken under the water and drowned.

5. At the end of the blessing, Alourdes mentions to Karen that Maggie is going to __________ (undergo the ritual initiation into Vodou) in July.
(a) 'Koche.'
(b) 'Kache.'
(c) 'Kouche.'
(d) 'Kitche.'

6. This spirit goes absolutely wildly out of control at the sight of ______________.
(a) Food.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Children.
(d) Blood.

7. ______________ is the mother, the one who bears the children.
(a) Ezili Danto.
(b) Ezili Freda.
(c) Ezili Lasyrenn.
(d) Ezili Asrial.

8. Philo discovers she is pregnant and does everything she can think of to miscarry, as another mouth to feed is the last thing she needs. The spirit __________________ comes to her in a dream and tells her to stop trying to kill her baby.
(a) Lady of Lourdes.
(b) Lady of the Snows.
(c) Lady of the Sea.
(d) Lady of Guadeloupe.

9. Why do they come to her apartment?
(a) To see it.
(b) To have a party in it.
(c) To visit her.
(d) To bless it.

10. There are ___________ levels of initiation into Vodou.
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

11. According to the Vodou philosophy, the world is a precarious place, and it is naïve to think what?
(a) That one can navigate their life without money.
(b) That one can navigate their life without family.
(c) That one can navigate their life without the labor required to usher in good luck and stave off bad luck.
(d) That one can navigate their life without God.

12. The spirit Papa Danbala is very _________, so when he "mounts" his horse, or manbo, in the possession-performance, he utters sounds only and does not speak.
(a) Feeble.
(b) Young.
(c) Old.
(d) Afraid.

13. Maggie is hospitalized with what?
(a) A mystery illness.
(b) A tumor.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Migraines.

14. The litany of spirits and the litany of ancestral rite would be impossible to maintain in the realm of _________________ where the human and the divine are forbidden to mix.
(a) Hinduism.
(b) Religion.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Catholicism.

15. In July of 1981, they travel to Haiti and meet up with a Haitian woman named ____________ who will undergo the initiation as well.
(a) Mimose.
(b) May.
(c) Maddie.
(d) Miracle.

Short Answer Questions

1. In time, the two become friends, and she tells him what story?

2. In the year ___________, both Maggie and Alourdes are confronted with the question--who are my people?

3. All Vodou lwa are represented by what?

4. What will they be forever?

5. She was born by cesarean section weighing a record ______ pounds.

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