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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. He represents the idea that Haitians must connect to what, while shedding their skin and recreating themselves as needed?
(a) Their lost African roots.
(b) Their lost family members.
(c) Their lost culture.
(d) Their lost spiritual guides.

2. This spirit goes absolutely wildly out of control at the sight of ______________.
(a) Children.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Blood.
(d) Food.

3. She was born by cesarean section weighing a record ______ pounds.
(a) 15.
(b) 16.
(c) 17.
(d) 14.

4. What does the spirit do to Philo?
(a) He makes her ill.
(b) He makes her deaf.
(c) He makes her go blind.
(d) He makes her mute.

5. This spirit is the '______________ woman' of the female spirits.
(a) Strong.
(b) Wild.
(c) Crazy.
(d) Wonder.

6. _________________ is a white woman.
(a) Ezili Danto.
(b) Ezili Lasyrenn.
(c) Ezili Asrial.
(d) Ezili Freda.

7. There are ___________ levels of initiation into Vodou.
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

8. In July of 1981, they travel to Haiti and meet up with a Haitian woman named ____________ who will undergo the initiation as well.
(a) Miracle.
(b) May.
(c) Mimose.
(d) Maddie.

9. The litany of spirits and the litany of ancestral rite would be impossible to maintain in the realm of _________________ where the human and the divine are forbidden to mix.
(a) Hinduism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Religion.

10. She is seen as the image of what?
(a) A fish or snake.
(b) A mermaid or a whale.
(c) A piece of seaweed.
(d) A turtle.

11. Each of these women represents a generational link in a chain that, if broken, will cause what to happen to future generations?
(a) They will die.
(b) They will lose their ancestral stories and their deepest connections to who they are.
(c) They will lose all power.
(d) They will leave Haiti.

12. The spirit, __________, comes to her in a dream.
(a) Ageou.
(b) Ague.
(c) Auge.
(d) Ago.

13. All Vodou lwa are represented by what?
(a) Hindu gods.
(b) The Apostles.
(c) A Catholic saint.
(d) Buddha.

14. Why must this be dislodged?
(a) It is blocking a major artery.
(b) It is pressing on her brain stem.
(c) It has become imbedded.
(d) It is growing larger.

15. ____________________ when she agrees to return to her family land in Jean Rabel to give a feast for the family spirits.
(a) Her sight is restored.
(b) Her health is restored.
(c) Her hearing is restored.
(d) Her voice is restored.

Short Answer Questions

1. We learn that the main focus of Alourdes' healing energy is directed at what?

2. Clement Rapelle, a Haitian man, dreams about a woman named Philomise who lives in a compound called _____________________.

3. Second is called ____________, to transform suffering into power.

4. What does Philo not want to do?

5. In this chapter we learn that Vodou rituals are always opened with what?

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