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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The litany of spirits and the litany of ancestral rite would be impossible to maintain in the realm of _________________ where the human and the divine are forbidden to mix.
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Hinduism.
(d) Religion.

4. Rapelle is told in the dream that she will be able to do what?
(a) Help him find his son.
(b) Give him a son.
(c) Protect his son.
(d) Help to cure his ailing son.

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 money.
(b) That one can navigate their life without God.
(c) That one can navigate their life without the labor required to usher in good luck and stave off bad luck.
(d) That one can navigate their life without family.

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

7. 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.

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

9. 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) Friend.
(b) Cousin.
(c) Stranger.
(d) Sister.

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

11. This chapter is a story about the life of Alourdes' ______________, Philomise.
(a) Brother.
(b) Sister.
(c) Mother.
(d) Daughter.

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

13. 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 research initiation.
(d) If she would like to sponsor those going to be initiated.

14. Alourdes calls who to help her daughter?
(a) Karen.
(b) Her family.
(c) The spirits.
(d) Her ancestors.

15. What does the spirit do to Philo?
(a) He makes her deaf.
(b) He makes her go blind.
(c) He makes her mute.
(d) He makes her ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. ______________ is an elusive creature of the deep sea, a siren.

2. This spirit is never satisfied, always craving more ____________________.

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

4. How do they know this illness is a sure sign of illness caused by the spirits?

5. It is noted that what was removed at the same time?

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