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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Manman Marasa?
(a) The wife of Mauvant.
(b) The daughter of Mauvant.
(c) The sister of Mauvant.
(d) Mama Lola's cousin.

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

4. What does Alourdes want to gather?
(a) Essential ingredients needed for ceremonies.
(b) Those who want to become Vodou healers.
(c) Her family and friends.
(d) Her thoughts.

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

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

7. How do Alourdes and Maggie feel about the idea of having to deal with the American police?
(a) They are excited.
(b) They are annoyed.
(c) They are terrified.
(d) They are angry.

8. Why does he fund this?
(a) So that Philo will be happy.
(b) So that Philo can be reunited with Sina.
(c) So that Philo can have a vacation.
(d) So that Philo will leave him alone.

9. Where is this ritual feeding held?
(a) In church in Port-au-Prince.
(b) In the town hall in Port-au-Prince.
(c) In the cemetery of Port-au-Prince.
(d) In someone's home in Port-au-Prince.

10. Macena shirks his responsibilities and spends all of his time where?
(a) At the cockfights.
(b) In a bar.
(c) In front of the television.
(d) With his friends.

11. What happens to Sina shortly after this?
(a) She returns to the United States.
(b) She becomes a manbo.
(c) She moves back into the country.
(d) She is poisoned and killed.

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

13. The chapter ends with a quick anecdote about whom?
(a) Mama Lola.
(b) Azaka.
(c) Karen.
(d) Maggie.

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

15. Kouzinn is _____________, a trade that is key to the survival for the poor women of Haiti.
(a) A market woman.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A healer.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Alourdes, it is a journey long overdue to do what?

2. His medicine, his power, is with him naturally, and he has no need even for what?

3. He comes to town alone, speaking of having done what?

4. Philo and a group of friends travel to ______________.

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

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