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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: The Funeral Singer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Beatrice answer when Aline asks how old she is?
(a) She says she is in her 50s.
(b) She says she is in her 60s.
(c) She does not answer, she only laughs.
(d) She says she is in her 40s.

2. How does Beatrice think the prison guard keeps finding her?
(a) She always announces her changes of address to her clients.
(b) She thinks her assistance lets him know.
(c) She thinks he has friends in the post office.
(d) She believes there are spies in the Haitian community.

3. Why does Eric chastise himself for his behavior toward his landlady?
(a) He says he acted like a manservant.
(b) He says that he acted like a child.
(c) He says that he was rude.
(d) He says he was unnecessarily brusque.

4. What is the reality of Michel’s father’s whereabouts?
(a) His father is a macoute who lives in Port-au-Prince.
(b) His father died in a prison camp.
(c) His father fled to America when Michel was young.
(d) His father lives across the street at the water station.

5. How does Aline characterize Beatrice’s state of mind to her editor?
(a) Disturbed.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Haunted.
(d) Nutty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose hand has the dictator transferred power to, now that he is leaving?

2. What group does Michel say he joined?

3. How much time has gone by since Nadine got the letter that she has not acted on?

4. What does Aline see when she looks into the house Beatrice calls the prison guard’s house?

5. How many microcassettes with Eric’s messages has Nadine added to her altar?

(see the answer key)

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