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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In this chapter, Alourdes, Maggie, Karen, Big Daddy and Maggie's children arrive at Karen's new ______________ apartment in Manhattan.
(a) TriBeCa.
(b) West Village.
(c) Chelsea.
(d) Lower East Side.

2. What does this spirit tell her?
(a) How to make treatments.
(b) How to get revenge.
(c) How to find those who are lost.
(d) How to put a curse on someone.

3. Maggie is hospitalized with what?
(a) A tumor.
(b) Migraines.
(c) Cancer.
(d) A mystery illness.

4. After losing this, she subsequently had a dream of what?
(a) Looking for the spirits.
(b) Being pursued by the spirits and meeting them with resistance.
(c) Losing her daughter.
(d) Snakes.

5. According to the Vodou philosophy, the world is a precarious place, and it is naïve to think what?
(a) That one can navigate their life without God.
(b) That one can navigate their life without the labor required to usher in good luck and stave off bad luck.
(c) That one can navigate their life without family.
(d) That one can navigate their life without money.

6. _________________ is a white woman.
(a) Ezili Lasyrenn.
(b) Ezili Freda.
(c) Ezili Asrial.
(d) Ezili Danto.

7. What happens to a person who catches a glimpse of her beneath the water that reaches out to touch her?
(a) He or she is blinded.
(b) He or she goes deaf.
(c) He or she is taken under the water and drowned.
(d) He or she loses his or her mind.

8. All four successfully survive the initiation. The story jumps to some years later in Alourdes' Brooklyn basement where the three surviving siblings of the initiation are doing what?
(a) Missing Maggie, who is killed in the spring of 1987.
(b) Missing Mimose, who is killed in the spring of 1987.
(c) Missing May, who is killed in the spring of 1987.
(d) Missing Miracle, who is killed in the spring of 1987.

9. This chapter is about the female spirits who belong to the grouping known as ____________.
(a) Ezili.
(b) Lasyrenn.
(c) Freda.
(d) Danto.

10. ______________ is an elusive creature of the deep sea, a siren.
(a) Lasyrenn.
(b) Asrial.
(c) Danto.
(d) Freda.

11. She is seen as the image of what?
(a) A fish or snake.
(b) A turtle.
(c) A piece of seaweed.
(d) A mermaid or a whale.

12. He represents the idea that Haitians must connect to what, while shedding their skin and recreating themselves as needed?
(a) Their lost African roots.
(b) Their lost spiritual guides.
(c) Their lost family members.
(d) Their lost culture.

13. First, upon arrival in Haiti, the group visits _______________ where a ritual cleansing is performed.
(a) The hall.
(b) The church.
(c) The cemetery.
(d) The home.

14. Philo discovers she is pregnant and does everything she can think of to miscarry, as another mouth to feed is the last thing she needs. The spirit __________________ comes to her in a dream and tells her to stop trying to kill her baby.
(a) Lady of Lourdes.
(b) Lady of the Snows.
(c) Lady of the Sea.
(d) Lady of Guadeloupe.

15. What does Philo not want to do?
(a) Leave Haiti.
(b) Help others.
(c) Put a curse on others.
(d) Take on the responsibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is this Karen's decision?

2. Gede's domination of the realm of death is reflective of a time when males held the power in Haitian families, and this is not the case any longer. In consequence, and in showing how flexible and ever-evolving the culture of Vodou is, a strong female version of Gede is slowly emerging, whose name is _____________.

3. Back to the present time in the hospital, Maggie is undergoing a procedure where what must be dislodged?

4. Each of these spirits exists in close relation to one another and, when considered as a group, are able to quite accurately paint a portrait of whom?

5. What does Karen decide?

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