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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 do the Tonton Macoutes do with the coffin?
(a) Bury it in a secret grave.
(b) Heave it into the undergrowth.
(c) Put it in the Cadillac trunk and tie it with rope.
(d) Push it off the edge of the cliff so it falls into the sea.

2. When Brown surveys his desk in his study, what is missing?
(a) A picture of his mother.
(b) A paper-weight that looks like a coffin.
(c) His cashbox and two cigars.
(d) A letter from Martha.

3. On Brown's property, what does Dr. Philipot do?
(a) Hangs himself.
(b) Shoots himself through the heart.
(c) Cuts his wrists and throat in the pool.
(d) Verbally attacks Joseph.

4. In Part 1, Chapter 5, Brown and Joseph discuss what might happen with Doctor Philipot's soul. What is the Voodoo belief about a dead man?
(a) He becomes a zombie and haunts the living.
(b) He moves on to the afterlife if he has lived a worthy life.
(c) He becomes a ghost and wanders the graveyard all night.
(d) He ceases to exist.

5. Rather than participating in the night of entertainment, what does Mr. Fernandez do?
(a) Fails to appear at all.
(b) Bursts out laughing.
(c) Bursts into tears.
(d) Becomes seasick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Along the border of the Dominican Republic, what does Brown feel?

2. What is the name of the Tonton Macoute who begins speaking to Brown?

3. When Brown unexpectedly sees Philipot and Joseph emerge from the woods, what physical state is Joseph in?

4. When Brown walks up the stairs to say hello to Angel, what does the boy show him?

5. How did Marcel kill himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. Doctor Magiot asserts, in a conversation with Brown, "No, I don't despair, I don't believe in despair, but our problems won't be solved by the Marines. . . . We are an evil slum floating a few miles from Florida, and no American will help us with arms or money or counsel" (p. 222). Is this a fair view of the situation? What might lead the doctor to believe this?

2. When Brown and Mr. Smith visit the Secretary of State, hoping to free Jones, how is Brown successful? Why is Mr. Smith's bluntness ineffective?

3. Doctor Magiot is willing to help Brown plan an escape for Jones as well as maintain a facade of caring for Jones in order to explain his absence from public life. Why are these two men willing to take such risk? What does it say about their character?

4. In Part 1, Chapter 5, Brown notes that he cannot remember Martha's voice, though he can picture her handwriting. What clue does this give the reader about their relationship?

5. When Captain Concasseur returns to Haiti, his single goal is to catch Jones. How is this fitting to Jones's character? What about to the character of Haitian politics?

6. Throughout Part 1, Chapter 4, the reader sees an interplay of men in power. How does this affect the story? In this situation, does power have meaning?

7. In Chapter 1 of Part 1, Brown and Jones meet as Jones is attempting to bribe the steward to switch their rooms. How is this first scene indicative of Jones's character?

8. On the way to the hotel immediately after his arrival in Haiti, Brown and Martha are stopped at a roadblock and searched. What is the purpose of telling this scene?

9. In Part 1, Chapter 2, how is Brown and Martha's relationship portrayed? What is the irony of their situation?

10. In his mother's desk, Brown finds a disk which Doctor Magiot recognizes as a medal of the resistance. What does this reveal about his mother?

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