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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Water Child.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Gabrielle Fonteneau’s profession?
(a) Accountant.
(b) Painter.
(c) TV actress.
(d) Movie star.

2. What does Ka’s father leave the Fonteneaus’ house with?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Fruits from their garden.
(c) Fish from their lake.
(d) Lemongrass.

3. How does the narrator characterize Eric’s declarations of love to his wife after she comes home with him?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Song.
(c) Babble.
(d) Prattle.

4. When does Eric’s wife finally feel that she is in another country?
(a) When the doors open out from Customs.
(b) When her husband lifts her up in an embrace, then puts her back on the ground.
(c) When she sees the land underneath the plane as it descends.
(d) When her plane touches down.

5. How does Eric look at his wife on the bus ride back home?
(a) As if he cannot see her enough.
(b) As if he does not recognize her.
(c) As if he is trying to see her for the first time.
(d) As if he were just seeing her for the first time.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gabrielle Fonteneau react when Ka tells her that she does not have the sculpture?

2. What caused Ka’s father to lose his teeth?

3. How does Eric’s wife keep her possessions from being nabbed by her relatives before she leaves?

4. Why does Ka say she wished her father would never stop smiling?

5. How did Ka get in touch with Gabrielle Fonteneau, to sell her the sculpture?

(see the answer key)

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