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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does this spirit tell her?
(a) How to put a curse on someone.
(b) How to get revenge.
(c) How to find those who are lost.
(d) How to make treatments.

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

3. 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.

4. When he finds her, she repeatedly refuses service to him. Why?
(a) She does not believe she is capable of helping him.
(b) The spirits have not come to her to explain how to treat the boy.
(c) She does not trust him.
(d) She does not want to help him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. ______________ is the mother, the one who bears the children.

2. This mothering spirit is tough and strict and sometimes very ____________.

3. What does this spirit love?

4. Alourdes remembers whose birth?

5. According to the Vodou philosophy, the world is a precarious place, and it is naïve to think what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What similarity exists between Marie Claire and Maggie?

2. How has Alourdes been like Ezili?

3. What story takes place regarding Alourdes in the previous chapter? How is this related to this chapter?

4. What is Alourdes' main role in Vodou? Describe her actions in this role. Why does she act this way?

5. What is learned about participating in the initiation rite?

6. How is the similarity described in number 45 significant?

7. How is myth important in Alourdes' life of Vodou?

8. What is significant about Karen's marriage to Papa Danbala?

9. What are Philo's plans for Alourdes, prior to her birth? How does this plan change?

10. How does Philo feel about Alourdes? Why might she feel this way?

(see the answer keys)

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