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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 - Dreams and Promises.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Alourdes do this for Karen?
(a) She loves Karen.
(b) She respects Karen.
(c) She worries about Karen.
(d) In order to determine how involved she should become within the world of Vodou.

2. When she first meets Alphonse Macena, she is just a girl of __________.
(a) 17.
(b) 15.
(c) 19.
(d) 12.

3. What is a "met tet?"
(a) Master of her head.
(b) A beaded rattle.
(c) A grocery store.
(d) A Mets fan.

4. This chapter we learn more about Kouzinn, the spirit who is what?
(a) The male counterpart to Azaka.
(b) Mama Lola's spiritual advisor.
(c) Azaka's brother.
(d) The female counterpart to Azaka.

5. By the end of this chapter, Alourdes does what for Karen?
(a) Buys her supplies for being a manbo.
(b) Reads her cards.
(c) Prays for her.
(d) Puts in a good word for her with the spirits.

Short Answer Questions

1. Often this way of thinking can lead a Haitian woman into what?

2. Philo discovers she is pregnant and does everything she can think of to miscarry, as another mouth to feed is the last thing she needs. The spirit __________________ comes to her in a dream and tells her to stop trying to kill her baby.

3. What should Karen take?

4. Mama Lola travels to ___________ from Haiti and falls very ill.

5. When "Sina," as Macena calls her, becomes pregnant, Mauvant and the men from the community do what?

(see the answer key)

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