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

2. This chapter is about the female spirits who belong to the grouping known as ____________.
(a) Freda.
(b) Danto.
(c) Ezili.
(d) Lasyrenn.

3. ______________ is an elusive creature of the deep sea, a siren.
(a) Lasyrenn.
(b) Freda.
(c) Danto.
(d) Asrial.

4. This chapter opens with Alourdes, Karen and a Jamaican woman named Mabel traveling to Jamaica and then onto Haiti in January of _________.
(a) 1985.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1990.

5. This spirit is never satisfied, always craving more ____________________.
(a) Children.
(b) Men.
(c) Love, wealth and honor.
(d) Students.

Short Answer Questions

1. ____________________ when she agrees to return to her family land in Jean Rabel to give a feast for the family spirits.

2. Rapelle is told in the dream that she will be able to do what?

3. All Vodou lwa are represented by what?

4. Each of these spirits exists in close relation to one another and, when considered as a group, are able to quite accurately paint a portrait of whom?

5. This chapter is a story about the life of Alourdes' ______________, Philomise.

Short Essay Questions

1. How is myth important in Alourdes' life of Vodou?

2. Who does Aunt Emma represent? Why is this important?

3. What is one of the best stories in this chapter? Why?

4. How has Alourdes been like Ezili?

5. What similarity exists between Marie Claire and Maggie?

6. What is learned about participating in the initiation rite?

7. What are Philo's plans for Alourdes, prior to her birth? How does this plan change?

8. What is the purpose of the Ezili spirits?

9. What understanding does this chapter give us regarding Alourdes and her daughter?

10. What does this chapter reiterate about the responsibility of serving the spirits?

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