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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. We learn in this chapter that Maggie is almost more like a ______________ to Alourdes, someone upon who she relies heavily in her work as a manbo.
(a) Cousin.
(b) Friend.
(c) Sister.
(d) Stranger.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Alourdes maintains that there is only one God, and one set of spirits, but different kinds of people in different kinds of religions do what?
(a) Do not believe in them.
(b) Create their own gods and spirits.
(c) Give them different names.
(d) Forget to worship them.

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

9. ______________ is the mother, the one who bears the children.
(a) Ezili Danto.
(b) Ezili Lasyrenn.
(c) Ezili Freda.
(d) Ezili Asrial.

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

11. 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 the Snows.
(b) Lady of Lourdes.
(c) Lady of the Sea.
(d) Lady of Guadeloupe.

12. What does Alourdes ask Karen?
(a) If she would like to watch the ritual initiation.
(b) If she would like to undergo the ritual initiation as well.
(c) If she would like to sponsor those going to be initiated.
(d) If she would like to research initiation.

13. Each of these women represents a generational link in a chain that, if broken, will cause what to happen to future generations?
(a) They will leave Haiti.
(b) They will die.
(c) They will lose their ancestral stories and their deepest connections to who they are.
(d) They will lose all power.

14. Clement Rapelle, a Haitian man, dreams about a woman named Philomise who lives in a compound called _____________________.
(a) Seven Stabs of the Knife.
(b) Seven Deadly Sins.
(c) Seventh Heaven.
(d) Seven Pennies from Heaven.

15. Why must this be dislodged?
(a) It is blocking a major artery.
(b) It has become imbedded.
(c) It is growing larger.
(d) It is pressing on her brain stem.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. After losing this, she subsequently had a dream of what?

4. Alourdes tells the story of a potential client who is a member of a devil-worship group, and she explains that she is a ______________.

5. In the year ___________, both Maggie and Alourdes are confronted with the question--who are my people?

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