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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All Vodou lwa are represented by what?
(a) Buddha.
(b) The Apostles.
(c) Hindu gods.
(d) A Catholic saint.

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

3. 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 money.
(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 God.

4. The prefix of the word Danbala is Da, meaning ___________.
(a) Teacher.
(b) Seeker.
(c) Healer.
(d) Snake-like.

5. Why is this Karen's decision?
(a) She wants to be a part of Alourdes' family.
(b) She wants to be a Vodou priestess.
(c) She wants to believe in something.
(d) She wants to have confidence in herself the way Alourdes does.

6. Back to the present time in the hospital, Maggie is undergoing a procedure where what must be dislodged?
(a) The tube in her stomach into which her fluids are draining.
(b) The cancer.
(c) A growth.
(d) The tumor.

7. There are ___________ levels of initiation into Vodou.
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

8. What does this spirit love?
(a) All men.
(b) Teaching others.
(c) Children.
(d) Fine clothes and jewelry and French perfume.

9. 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 _____________.
(a) Gedelia.
(b) Geda.
(c) Gedenia.
(d) Gerte.

10. At the end of the blessing, Alourdes mentions to Karen that Maggie is going to __________ (undergo the ritual initiation into Vodou) in July.
(a) 'Koche.'
(b) 'Kouche.'
(c) 'Kitche.'
(d) 'Kache.'

11. Alourdes remembers whose birth?
(a) Maggie's.
(b) Her own.
(c) The spirits'.
(d) Karen's.

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

13. In July of 1981, they travel to Haiti and meet up with a Haitian woman named ____________ who will undergo the initiation as well.
(a) May.
(b) Maddie.
(c) Miracle.
(d) Mimose.

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 Guadeloupe.
(c) Lady of the Snows.
(d) Lady of the Sea.

15. She was born by cesarean section weighing a record ______ pounds.
(a) 15.
(b) 16.
(c) 14.
(d) 17.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must this be dislodged?

2. Maggie tells the story of losing a ___________ (an important item in Vodou initiation rituals.) while in Haiti.

3. What does this spirit tell her?

4. We learn that the main focus of Alourdes' healing energy is directed at what?

5. In this chapter, Alourdes, Maggie, Karen, Big Daddy and Maggie's children arrive at Karen's new ______________ apartment in Manhattan.

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