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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 - Gede.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When "Sina," as Macena calls her, becomes pregnant, Mauvant and the men from the community do what?
(a) Force him to marry Sina.
(b) Build him a hut in the compound.
(c) Kick him out.
(d) Put him in jail.

2. There are _______ different subdivisions of Ogou.
(a) Many.
(b) A few.
(c) Two.
(d) Very few.

3. Mauvant dresses and assumes his usual post where?
(a) In the center square.
(b) Outside the general store.
(c) On his porch.
(d) Beneath the cottonsilk tree.

4. Alourdes and Maggie have the responsibility of keeping the women of this line, Sina, Philo and beyond, as well as the family spirits, alive with what?
(a) Prayers.
(b) Ritual feeding.
(c) Stories.
(d) Their memories.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In time, the two become friends, and she tells him what story?

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

3. Despite her power as a Vodou priestess and the protection that she enjoys at the hands of the spirits, ________________ is enough to upturn Alourdes' life.

4. This chapter opens with Alourdes, Karen and a Jamaican woman named Mabel traveling to Jamaica and then onto Haiti in January of _________.

5. What will they be forever?

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