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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 - Sojeme, Sojeme.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Macena shirks his responsibilities and spends all of his time where?
(a) At the cockfights.
(b) With his friends.
(c) In front of the television.
(d) In a bar.

2. Sina realizes that Macena will not leave the family compound, so she and her eldest daughter, Gloria, decide to do what?
(a) Remove him from the compound.
(b) Convince him to leave.
(c) Move to a neighboring town.
(d) Kill him.

3. Alourdes calls who to help her daughter?
(a) The spirits.
(b) Her ancestors.
(c) Karen.
(d) Her family.

4. According to legend, she is so ______________ that he almost faints the first time he sees her.
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Ugly.
(c) Cold.
(d) Scary.

5. McCarthy Brown recounts in this chapter a trip she and Alourdes make together in ________ to Haiti.
(a) 1984.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1983.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alourdes' mother, Philomise, is the _________ child born to them.

2. Macena believes that the spirits, like his wife, are there to do what?

3. He is a "grimo," or _____________ man.

4. Why does Macena mourn bitterly?

5. They are received with a mixture of ____________________ by the rural townsfolk.

(see the answer key)

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