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

2. What is Nadia's father's name?
(a) James.
(b) Maurice.
(c) William.
(d) Charles.

3. What does Maurice's wife give Nadia to eat when she gets to Miami?
(a) Jerk Chicken.
(b) Bread Soup.
(c) Oxtail.
(d) Brunch.

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

5. How long did the father/son dictatorship last for in Haiti?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 100 years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Melisande learn about her first doctor?

3. Where did Thomas live before he moved to Miami?

4. Who is Roro?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the narrator and Babette talk about when they meet?

2. Who was Dede swindled in the past?

3. How does the narrator respond when Melisande tells her about her medical news?

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

5. How does Elsie describe Olivia when she first meets and becomes friends with her in Section 1?

6. What does Anika say initially attracted her to Thomas?

7. How does the chapter get it's name, "The Port-au-Prince Marriage Special"?

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

9. Who is Mona and how does Elsie describe her?

10. How does Nadia describe her father's wife?

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