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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 - Raise That Woman's Petticoat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the beaded rattle used to leverage the spirit world?
(a) An afon.
(b) An axon.
(c) An acon.
(d) An ason.

2. What does Mauvant vomit up?
(a) A small, smooth stone.
(b) A spirit.
(c) A diamond.
(d) His lunch.

3. The spirits will do what if should she neglect them?
(a) Help her.
(b) Kill her.
(c) Not work for her.
(d) Ignore her.

4. What does she learn from her sister-in-law?
(a) She is to become a spirit.
(b) She is to move back to Haiti.
(c) She is to return to Haiti to train as a manbo.
(d) She is to train as a manbo in Brooklyn.

5. Azaka goes about his business first, settling outstanding loans from what, and then selling the goods from his altar to the guests?
(a) The market.
(b) Car sales.
(c) Apartment rental.
(d) The previous year's party.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first chapter of the book begins where?

2. When Karen arrives, where does she find Mama Lola?

3. The compound is a grouping of huts for whom?

4. In what town does the story take place?

5. When she first meets Alphonse Macena, she is just a girl of __________.

(see the answer key)

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