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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of the maid’s personality reminds Ka of her mother?
(a) Her youth.
(b) Her poor English.
(c) Her limp.
(d) Her haughtiness.

2. Where is Fonteneau visiting her parents, that Ka is bringing her the sculpture?
(a) Tampa.
(b) Jacksonville.
(c) St. Augustine.
(d) Orlando.

3. How much time has gone by since Nadine got the letter that she has not acted on?
(a) Ten days.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Three days.
(d) Three moneys.

4. What does the next letter Nadine receives from her parents have to report?
(a) Her father is coming to visit.
(b) Her mother has slipped and fallen.
(c) Her father has prostate cancer.
(d) Her mother is learning to drive.

5. What does Ka’s father leave the Fonteneaus’ house with?
(a) Lemongrass.
(b) Fruits from their garden.
(c) Fish from their lake.
(d) Flowers.

6. What department of the hospital does Nadine work in?
(a) Oncology.
(b) Pediatric oncology.
(c) Ear Nose and Throat.
(d) Rheumatology.

7. When does Eric start to feel joy in anticipation of seeing his wife again?
(a) The morning of his wife’s arrival.
(b) Weeks before his wife arrives.
(c) At the airport.
(d) In the taxi on the way to meet her.

8. What is a ka, in The Book of the Dead?
(a) A double of the body.
(b) A sacrificial offering.
(c) An angel who weighs the soul.
(d) An altar for offering prayers.

9. What procedure has Ms. Hinds had performed in the hospital?
(a) Hysterectomy.
(b) Laryngectomy.
(c) Lumpectomy.
(d) Cataract surgery.

10. How does the narrator characterize Eric’s declarations of love to his wife after she comes home with him?
(a) Prattle.
(b) Song.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Babble.

11. What does Eric give his wife to drink when she arrives?
(a) Papaya juice.
(b) Mango juice.
(c) Passion fruit juice.
(d) Water.

12. How does Nadine’s mother characterize her father’s health in her letter to Nadine?
(a) Fantastic.
(b) Terrible.
(c) Improving.
(d) Unreliable.

13. How old is Ms. Hinds?
(a) 39.
(b) 25.
(c) 32.
(d) 64.

14. What is the importance of the date of the final scene in the chapter "Water Child"?
(a) It is the day Nadine's baby would have been born.
(b) It is the day Eric had promised to be with Nadine.
(c) It is the day Nadine is going to call her family.
(d) It is the day Eric’s wife arrives.

15. Where is Anne’s husband’s barber shop?
(a) In the middle of the Haitian community.
(b) In an almost all-white community.
(c) In a big neighborhood of mixed races.
(d) In an African community.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Anne’s husband go to see Egyptian sculptures?

2. Where does Eric work during the day?

3. When had Ka declared herself an atheist?

4. What is Gabrielle Fonteneau’s profession?

5. Where are Ka and her father at the start of the book?

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