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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10 - Danbala.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What should Karen take?
(a) First Communion.
(b) The initiation rite.
(c) A walk through a cemetery.
(d) A course in Vodou.

2. What does Mauvant regularly do?
(a) He sleeps.
(b) He sits sipping his special rum mixture and doling out medicine and advice.
(c) He tells stories.
(d) He talks to the spirits.

3. In ______________, Alourdes' son William, who is mentally retarded, is arrested for a purse snatching.
(a) April of 1981.
(b) November of 1981.
(c) March of 1981.
(d) January of 1981.

4. The story begins on __________ early morning.
(a) A cold.
(b) A strange.
(c) A typical.
(d) A stormy.

5. McCarthy Brown recounts in this chapter a trip she and Alourdes make together in ________ to Haiti.
(a) 1981.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1983.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mama Lola takes the ________ like her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

2. Maggie tells the story of losing a ___________ (an important item in Vodou initiation rituals.) while in Haiti.

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

4. What is the reasoning for the answer to number 96?

5. The relationship between Sina and Alphonse Macena does not last long. Why?

(see the answer key)

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