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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. Who is Olivia?
(a) Blaise's new girlfriend.
(b) Gaspard's daughter.
(c) Elsie's daughter.
(d) Mona's sister.

2. Who is Mona?
(a) Gaspard's daughter.
(b) Elsie's sister.
(c) Blaise's new wife.
(d) Elsie's best friend.

3. What is Olivia wearing the night she meets Blaise?
(a) A bathing suit.
(b) Green-sequined cocktail dress.
(c) White blouse and black skirt.
(d) A Halloween costume.

4. Where does Elsie live?
(a) New York.
(b) Oregon.
(c) Austin.
(d) Miami.

5. What is one of Blaise's "many obsessions" (4)?
(a) Clean fingernails.
(b) Clean shaven.
(c) Clean clothes.
(d) Clean house.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Gaspard?

2. Where are Nadia's father and his wife when she calls Nadia?

3. Who gives Anika the news about Thomas's wife and daughter dying?

4. How long were Elsie and Blaise married for?

5. What does Thomas say when Anika tells him she is pregnant?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Nadia not know her father, in Section 2?

2. What happens between Dede and Elsie at the end of "Dosas"?

3. What happens when Nadia gets to the house to see her father, in Section 2?

4. How does Nadia's mother react when Nadia calls her after learning her father is dead?

5. What is Elsie's job in Section 1? Does she like it?

6. What is the job that the narrator and her husband have?

7. What does Anika do after she learns about the earthquake in Haiti?

8. How does the earthquake in Haiti impact Thomas's life?

9. What events lead up to Thomas and Anika pouring water on their heads?

10. What does Dede reveal to Elsie about Blaise in "Dosas"?

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