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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 - Sojeme, Sojeme.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alourdes remembers whose birth?
(a) The spirits'.
(b) Maggie's.
(c) Her own.
(d) Karen's.

2. Before long, Macena discovers her whereabouts and does what?
(a) Comes to live with her.
(b) Robs her.
(c) Ignores her.
(d) Kicks her out of her new home.

3. Back to the present time in the hospital, Maggie is undergoing a procedure where what must be dislodged?
(a) The tube in her stomach into which her fluids are draining.
(b) The tumor.
(c) The cancer.
(d) A growth.

4. Alourdes' mother, Philomise, is the _________ child born to them.
(a) Third.
(b) First.
(c) Second.
(d) Fourth.

5. In Haiti, before she moved to America, Alourdes, like most other Haitian women, did whatever it took to feed herself and her family, including what?
(a) Cooking for wealthy families.
(b) Bartering with sex.
(c) Selling precious items.
(d) Giving away her children.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do they know this illness is a sure sign of illness caused by the spirits?

2. What does Alourdes want to gather?

3. Macena believes that the spirits, like his wife, are there to do what?

4. She later stages a ______________.

5. McCarthy Brown recounts in this chapter a trip she and Alourdes make together in ________ to Haiti.

(see the answer key)

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