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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. He represents the idea that Haitians must connect to what, while shedding their skin and recreating themselves as needed?
(a) Their lost family members.
(b) Their lost African roots.
(c) Their lost culture.
(d) Their lost spiritual guides.

2. 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 family.
(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 money.
(d) That one can navigate their life without God.

3. They are made to understand that they cannot reveal exactly what occurs in the initiation chamber; to do so is to cause what?
(a) The separation of the initiate from the spirits.
(b) Destruction of the family.
(c) The end of Vodou.
(d) Your own death.

4. After losing this, she subsequently had a dream of what?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Looking for the spirits.
(c) Losing her daughter.
(d) Being pursued by the spirits and meeting them with resistance.

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

6. 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.

7. What happens to a person who catches a glimpse of her beneath the water that reaches out to touch her?
(a) He or she goes deaf.
(b) He or she is taken under the water and drowned.
(c) He or she loses his or her mind.
(d) He or she is blinded.

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

9. 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) Give them different names.
(b) Do not believe in them.
(c) Forget to worship them.
(d) Create their own gods and spirits.

10. This spirit is the '______________ woman' of the female spirits.
(a) Strong.
(b) Wonder.
(c) Wild.
(d) Crazy.

11. In time, the two become friends, and she tells him what story?
(a) Of how she first came to Haiti.
(b) Of how she began studying Vodou.
(c) Of how she began her work in treating people.
(d) Of how she became a Haitian.

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

13. ____________________ when she agrees to return to her family land in Jean Rabel to give a feast for the family spirits.
(a) Her sight is restored.
(b) Her hearing is restored.
(c) Her voice is restored.
(d) Her health is restored.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In July of 1981, they travel to Haiti and meet up with a Haitian woman named ____________ who will undergo the initiation as well.

2. 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?

3. Rapelle is told in the dream that she will be able to do what?

4. This chapter is about the female spirits who belong to the grouping known as ____________.

5. Clement Rapelle, a Haitian man, dreams about a woman named Philomise who lives in a compound called _____________________.

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