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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. Where does Aline think about going, after her interview with Beatrice?
(a) To work in Haiti.
(b) Back home to her parents.
(c) Back to the office.
(d) To school in Haiti.

2. What is the story about where Michel’s father was lost?
(a) To illness.
(b) In an industrial accident.
(c) In something political.
(d) In a fishing accident at sea.

3. Where have Anne and her husband gone to get Ka for this Christmas mass?
(a) Westchester county.
(b) Jersey City.
(c) Rockland county.
(d) Ulster county.

4. In the Carnival tradition, who is a married couple supposed to find, to ask the person to marry them?
(a) The most musical person they could find.
(b) The most stone-faced person they could find.
(c) The most sacred person they could find.
(d) The drunkest person they could find.

5. How does Eric’s wife keep her possessions from being nabbed by her relatives before she leaves?
(a) Locks them up.
(b) Gift wraps them.
(c) Gives them away.
(d) Hides them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Eric work during the day?

2. How does Beatrice indicate the residents of the houses on her block?

3. Why does Freda sing Brother Timonie for her friends?

4. Why did Claude kill his father?

5. How does Nadine characterize the woman she sees reflected in the elevator doors?

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