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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. There are ___________ levels of initiation into Vodou.
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.
2. 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 lose their ancestral stories and their deepest connections to who they are.
(b) They will die.
(c) They will lose all power.
(d) They will leave Haiti.
3. Alourdes remembers whose birth?
(a) Her own.
(b) Maggie's.
(c) The spirits'.
(d) Karen's.
4. What does Philo not want to do?
(a) Leave Haiti.
(b) Help others.
(c) Put a curse on others.
(d) Take on the responsibility.
5. Alourdes has been hired to do some healing work for a woman in Kingston, as well as for Mabel's son. In Kingston, they meet _______________ who is devoutly attached to her Bible.
(a) Aunt Emma.
(b) Aunt Emily.
(c) Aunt Erin.
(d) Aunt Edna.
6. ____________________ when she agrees to return to her family land in Jean Rabel to give a feast for the family spirits.
(a) Her health is restored.
(b) Her sight is restored.
(c) Her voice is restored.
(d) Her hearing is restored.
7. What does this spirit love?
(a) Teaching others.
(b) All men.
(c) Fine clothes and jewelry and French perfume.
(d) Children.
8. We learn that the main focus of Alourdes' healing energy is directed at what?
(a) The spirits on the land.
(b) The deeper issues that are uncovered during the course of her treatment.
(c) Her family.
(d) The people who live on this land.
9. Why must this be dislodged?
(a) It has become imbedded.
(b) It is pressing on her brain stem.
(c) It is blocking a major artery.
(d) It is growing larger.
10. What happens to a person who catches a glimpse of her beneath the water that reaches out to touch her?
(a) He or she loses his or her mind.
(b) He or she is taken under the water and drowned.
(c) He or she is blinded.
(d) He or she goes deaf.
11. Why do they come to her apartment?
(a) To visit her.
(b) To see it.
(c) To bless it.
(d) To have a party in it.
12. Danbala operates from the territory of ______________, asking questions.
(a) Questioning.
(b) Intellect.
(c) Learning.
(d) Blood and memory.
13. Maggie is hospitalized with what?
(a) Migraines.
(b) Cancer.
(c) A tumor.
(d) A mystery illness.
14. ______________ is the mother, the one who bears the children.
(a) Ezili Lasyrenn.
(b) Ezili Asrial.
(c) Ezili Freda.
(d) Ezili Danto.
15. At the end of the blessing, Alourdes mentions to Karen that Maggie is going to __________ (undergo the ritual initiation into Vodou) in July.
(a) 'Kitche.'
(b) 'Kouche.'
(c) 'Koche.'
(d) 'Kache.'
Short Answer Questions
1. This chapter is about the female spirits who belong to the grouping known as ____________.
2. Maggie tells the story of losing a ___________ (an important item in Vodou initiation rituals.) while in Haiti.
3. Why is this Karen's decision?
4. Where does Papa Gede live?
5. After losing this, she subsequently had a dream of what?
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