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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This chapter is a story about the life of Alourdes' ______________, Philomise.
(a) Brother.
(b) Mother.
(c) Sister.
(d) Daughter.

2. Rapelle is told in the dream that she will be able to do what?
(a) Give him a son.
(b) Help to cure his ailing son.
(c) Help him find his son.
(d) Protect his son.

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

4. His medicine, his power, is with him naturally, and he has no need even for what?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Friends.
(c) Spirits.
(d) An ason.

5. How old is Joseph Binbin Mauvant?
(a) 89.
(b) 69.
(c) 59.
(d) 79.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Philo realize?

2. He represents the idea that Haitians must connect to what, while shedding their skin and recreating themselves as needed?

3. What does Mauvant vomit up?

4. Azaka goes about his business first, settling outstanding loans from what, and then selling the goods from his altar to the guests?

5. The litany of spirits and the litany of ancestral rite would be impossible to maintain in the realm of _________________ where the human and the divine are forbidden to mix.

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