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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Book of Miracles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much time has gone by since Nadine got the letter that she has not acted on?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Three days.
(c) Three moneys.
(d) Ten days.

2. When does Eric start to feel joy in anticipation of seeing his wife again?
(a) At the airport.
(b) The morning of his wife’s arrival.
(c) Weeks before his wife arrives.
(d) In the taxi on the way to meet her.

3. What is Nadine’s reputation on the ward where she works?
(a) Open and confiding
(b) Not friendly.
(c) Professional and cold.
(d) Conspiratorial.

4. Where are Ka and her father at the start of the book?
(a) Lakeland, Florida.
(b) Port-au-Prince Haiti.
(c) Washington, DC.
(d) New York City.

5. What aspect of the maid’s personality reminds Ka of her mother?
(a) Her youth.
(b) Her haughtiness.
(c) Her poor English.
(d) Her limp.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator says that Anne feels about having stopped having epileptic seizures?

2. When does Eric’s wife finally feel that she is in another country?

3. Why does Eric chastise himself for his behavior toward his landlady?

4. How does Ka say her father reacted when she tried to take his picture?

5. Where does Nadine live?

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