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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many microcassettes with Eric’s messages has Nadine added to her altar?
(a) Seven.
(b) Nine.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

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

4. What caused Ka’s father to lose his teeth?
(a) Prison nightmares.
(b) An infected tooth.
(c) A car accident.
(d) A prisoner attacked him.

5. Why does Ka say that her father destroyed the sculpture?
(a) Because he is so ashamed of himself.
(b) Because he always feels competitive with her.
(c) Because he does not want to be documented.
(d) Because he is vain about his appearance.

6. What is the small altar Nadine has built on her dresser for?
(a) To honor her brother who died.
(b) To honor Eric who has left her.
(c) To honor the child she aborted.
(d) To honor her parents.

7. How does Ka explain to Gabrielle Fonteneau that she does not have the sculpture?
(a) She says that another buyer claimed it.
(b) She says that her father did not like it.
(c) She says that she could not part with it.
(d) She says that it fell apart in transit.

8. Where was Ka born and raised?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Léogâne, Haiti.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

9. Where does Eric work during the day?
(a) City Hall.
(b) The Rendez Vous night club.
(c) Medgar Evers College.
(d) King’s County Hospital.

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

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

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

13. Where does Eric work at night?
(a) The Rendez Vous night club.
(b) City Hall.
(c) Medgar Evers College.
(d) King’s County Hospital.

14. When does Anne go up to the man her daughter thought was Emmanuel Constant?
(a) After Communion.
(b) Before the service starts.
(c) In between hymns.
(d) After the service.

15. How did Anne’s younger brother die?
(a) Illness.
(b) Car accident.
(c) Drowning.
(d) Abduction.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Carnival tradition, who is a married couple supposed to find, to ask the person to marry them?

2. What quality does mistletoe have, according to Anne?

3. What had Constant’s role been in Haiti, before he moved to the U.S.?

4. What has made the Cenegal nightclub famous since the days when Eric and Dany used to go there?

5. Where does Nadine read her parents’ letter every day?

(see the answer keys)

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