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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Karen decides to marry Papa Ogou, Alourdes tells her that she must also marry Papa Danbala. Why?
(a) So she may have two husbands.
(b) For the sake of honor.
(c) So he will not be lonely.
(d) For the sake of balance.

2. ____________________ when she agrees to return to her family land in Jean Rabel to give a feast for the family spirits.
(a) Her health is restored.
(b) Her hearing is restored.
(c) Her voice is restored.
(d) Her sight is restored.

3. This mothering spirit is tough and strict and sometimes very ____________.
(a) Cold.
(b) Slow.
(c) Violent.
(d) Quiet.

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

5. What does Karen decide?
(a) She wants to study it.
(b) She wants to do it.
(c) She wants to view it.
(d) She wants to sponsor them.

6. Alourdes, Mabel and Karen travel to a large _______________ in Kingston where Alourdes is to "treat" a parcel of land the owner needs to sell.
(a) Factory.
(b) Dairy farm.
(c) Christmas tree farm.
(d) Home.

7. She was born by cesarean section weighing a record ______ pounds.
(a) 16.
(b) 14.
(c) 17.
(d) 15.

8. We learn that the main focus of Alourdes' healing energy is directed at what?
(a) The spirits on the land.
(b) The people who live on this land.
(c) The deeper issues that are uncovered during the course of her treatment.
(d) Her family.

9. 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 the labor required to usher in good luck and stave off bad luck.
(b) That one can navigate their life without family.
(c) That one can navigate their life without God.
(d) That one can navigate their life without money.

10. What does the spirit do to Philo?
(a) He makes her deaf.
(b) He makes her go blind.
(c) He makes her ill.
(d) He makes her mute.

11. Alourdes calls who to help her daughter?
(a) Her family.
(b) Karen.
(c) Her ancestors.
(d) The spirits.

12. 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 loses his or her mind.
(c) He or she is taken under the water and drowned.
(d) He or she is blinded.

13. After losing this, she subsequently had a dream of what?
(a) Looking for the spirits.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Losing her daughter.
(d) Being pursued by the spirits and meeting them with resistance.

14. This spirit is the '______________ woman' of the female spirits.
(a) Wonder.
(b) Crazy.
(c) Wild.
(d) Strong.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. All Vodou lwa are represented by what?

2. Alourdes maintains that there is only one God, and one set of spirits, but different kinds of people in different kinds of religions do what?

3. 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.

4. This chapter is about the female spirits who belong to the grouping known as ____________.

5. We learn in this chapter that Maggie is almost more like a ______________ to Alourdes, someone upon who she relies heavily in her work as a manbo.

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