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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3 Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the captain want Brown to keep an eye on Jones?
(a) He thinks Jones is a murderer.
(b) He thinks Jones is a gambler.
(c) Brown does not mind spying on someone.
(d) Jones has not fully paid for his passage aboard the ship.

2. Why do Mr. and Mrs. Smith decide not to build the vegetarian center?
(a) It would take too many years to finish.
(b) The Minister has no intention of helping them.
(c) There are too many bureaucratic hoops to jump through.
(d) They are weary of fighting the Haitian way of thinking.

3. Jones finally tells Brown how he got the traveling cocktail case. What is the truth?
(a) He used a company check to buy it.
(b) The captain of his platoon gave it to him.
(c) He walked out of the store with it.
(d) He won it in a bet in Burma.

4. As Brown and young Philipot converse near the hotel pool, what does Philipot reveal that he is obsessed with?
(a) The chance to avenge his uncle's death.
(b) A Bren gun and training.
(c) The opportunity to shoot a Tonton Macoute.
(d) An important government job.

5. Lying on the ground next to his pool, Brown thinks that he and Martha are more intimate than ever before. Why is this?
(a) They talk about running away together.
(b) They do not talk.
(c) They make love gently.
(d) They trust each other with words rather than a touch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Starting in Part 1, Chapter 1, what problem does Brown have with Jones's name?

2. Why does Doctor Magiot visit Brown one night?

3. Why do Brown and the Secretary of the Interior converse briefly in French?

4. In Mr. Smith's typed report for the people of Wisconsin, what is his tone?

5. When Brown disembarks from the Medea, why is Martha sitting in the place she used to rendezvous with him?

(see the answer key)

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