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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) Lower East Side.
(b) TriBeCa.
(c) West Village.
(d) Chelsea.

2. Alourdes, Mabel and Karen travel to a large _______________ in Kingston where Alourdes is to "treat" a parcel of land the owner needs to sell.
(a) Dairy farm.
(b) Home.
(c) Christmas tree farm.
(d) Factory.

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

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 ______________.
(a) Christian.
(b) Vodou priestess.
(c) Vodou practitioner.
(d) Devil-worshipper as well.

5. What does Karen decide?
(a) She wants to do it.
(b) She wants to view it.
(c) She wants to sponsor them.
(d) She wants to study it.

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

7. 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) 'Kitche.'
(c) 'Kache.'
(d) 'Kouche.'

8. Why do they come to her apartment?
(a) To bless it.
(b) To visit her.
(c) To see it.
(d) To have a party in it.

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

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

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

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

13. Philo catches the black fever plaguing Haiti. During her recovery, Ageou visits Philo in a dream and tells her what?
(a) How to cure Clement Rapelle's son.
(b) How to give Clement Rapelle a son.
(c) How to find Clement Rapelle's son.
(d) How to protect Clement Rapelle's son.

14. 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 Mimose, who is killed in the spring of 1987.
(b) Missing Maggie, who is killed in the spring of 1987.
(c) Missing Miracle, who is killed in the spring of 1987.
(d) Missing May, who is killed in the spring of 1987.

15. This chapter opens with Alourdes, Karen and a Jamaican woman named Mabel traveling to Jamaica and then onto Haiti in January of _________.
(a) 1990.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1980.

Short Answer Questions

1. They are made to understand that they cannot reveal exactly what occurs in the initiation chamber; to do so is to cause what?

2. Second is called ____________, to transform suffering into power.

3. When Karen decides to marry Papa Ogou, Alourdes tells her that she must also marry Papa Danbala. Why?

4. In this chapter we learn that Vodou rituals are always opened with what?

5. 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.

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