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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is this town located?
(a) In the northeast corner of Haiti.
(b) In the southeast corner of Haiti.
(c) In the southwest corner of Haiti.
(d) In the northwest corner of Haiti.

3. What does Alourdes want to gather?
(a) Her thoughts.
(b) Those who want to become Vodou healers.
(c) Her family and friends.
(d) Essential ingredients needed for ceremonies.

4. What warrior lesson does Karen learn?
(a) Strike first and strike hard.
(b) Learn how to wield a sword.
(c) Know what you want and fight for it.
(d) Fight those who fight you.

5. Who is Joseph Binbin Mauvant?
(a) Mama Lola's brother.
(b) Mama Lola's grandfather.
(c) Mama Lola's father.
(d) Mama Lola's great grandfather.

6. What is the reasoning for the answer to number 96?
(a) She loses all self-esteem.
(b) Her children are her life.
(c) She gives away part of herself.
(d) Vodou spirits are ideal lovers.

7. What does Philo realize?
(a) She must return to New York.
(b) She must ignore the spirits.
(c) She must serve the spirits and take up her mother's legacy.
(d) She misses Luc.

8. Why is Azaka mad?
(a) Azaka thinks Alourdes is not going to throw him a party.
(b) Azaka is in a bad mood.
(c) Azaka thinks Alourdes does not love him.
(d) Azaka does not want Alourdes to throw him a party.

9. The day arrives when a ________ (an evil spirit, in this case, a two legged horse which stands straight like a man) visits Madame Fouchard in the middle of the night.
(a) Baka.
(b) Maka.
(c) Laka.
(d) Raka.

10. Mama Lola travels to ___________ from Haiti and falls very ill.
(a) Spain.
(b) France.
(c) America.
(d) Cuba.

11. Alourdes ____________ the family spirits that inhabit the land.
(a) Follows.
(b) Studies.
(c) Mocks.
(d) Feeds.

12. When "Sina," as Macena calls her, becomes pregnant, Mauvant and the men from the community do what?
(a) Build him a hut in the compound.
(b) Put him in jail.
(c) Kick him out.
(d) Force him to marry Sina.

13. Azaka offers the rest of his altar food to his guests, doles out messages to the individual guests and instructs them how to do what?
(a) Pay for his services.
(b) Live their lives
(c) Worship him.
(d) Dismantle his altar.

14. Unfortunately, Fouchard's plan all along is to do what?
(a) Return Philo to her mother as soon as possible.
(b) Utilize Philo as a maid whom she will not have to pay.
(c) Sell Philo.
(d) Have Philo be the daughter she always wanted.

15. Many guests arrive for the ritual, and after ______________ to persuade the spirits to attend, Mama Lola becomes possessed by the spirit of Azaka.
(a) Singing.
(b) Eating.
(c) Chanting.
(d) Praying.

Short Answer Questions

1. This is done around ____________.

2. Mauvant is what they call a _____________________ or a true African who has the spirits "on him" always.

3. ____________ is finally reacted by Karen, Alourdes and their traveling companions.

4. When do the preparations for the party begin?

5. The chapter about the spirit Azaka, or "Kouzen Zaka" begins with Karen telling the story of her journey to Mama Lola's home in ______________.

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