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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Maurice's wife's job before she moved back to Haiti with Maurice?
(a) Artist.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Waitress.

2. What does Dosa mean?
(a) Little sister.
(b) Loved one.
(c) Surplus child.
(d) Motherland.

3. Where does Mona live?
(a) Italy.
(b) New York.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) Haiti.

4. What does Thomas smell like when he and Anika meet up?
(a) After shave.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Body odor.
(d) Alcohol.

5. What is Nadia doing at the start of "In the Old Days"?
(a) Eating at her mother's restaurant.
(b) Flying to Miami.
(c) Watching T.V.
(d) Grading essays.

6. What did Nadia's father die from?
(a) Lupus.
(b) Heart Attack.
(c) AIDS.
(d) Cancer.

7. Where are Nadia's father and his wife when she calls Nadia?
(a) Miami.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) Haiti.
(d) New York.

8. What does Anika wear to her meeting with Thomas?
(a) Pajamas.
(b) A black dress.
(c) A green pant's suit.
(d) A bathing suit.

9. What is the gift that Anika has prepared for Thomas?
(a) Sex.
(b) A hand drawn picture of his wife and daughter as birds.
(c) A framed picture of the two of them.
(d) A key to her apartment.

10. What is Nadia's job?
(a) Writer.
(b) Actor.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Scientist.

11. How much money does Elsie give Blaise?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $1,000.
(c) $2,000.
(d) $5,000.

12. Who has an outstanding bill at the hotel in "The Port-au-Prince Marriage Special"?
(a) Melisande and her mother.
(b) Xavier.
(c) A senator.
(d) All the refugees they house at the hotel.

13. Where does Maurice want his ashes spread?
(a) The ocean.
(b) His school in Port-au-Prince.
(c) New York City.
(d) Nadia's yard.

14. What does Thomas say when Anika tells him she is pregnant?
(a) He denies that it is his.
(b) He demands she get an abortion.
(c) She never tells him about the baby.
(d) He is angry and hits her.

15. Where is Melisande's third doctor from?
(a) Canada.
(b) Cuba.
(c) America.
(d) Haiti.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Gaspard?

2. Where does Elsie live?

3. Who is Xavier?

4. What does Olivia do the first night she meets Blaise?

5. What does Nadia suddenly get the urge to do to Maurice's wife after he dies?

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