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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 find Clement Rapelle's son.
(c) How to give Clement Rapelle a son.
(d) How to protect Clement Rapelle's son.

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

3. Where does Papa Gede live?
(a) In the church.
(b) In the cemetery.
(c) In the sky.
(d) In the water.

4. How do they know this illness is a sure sign of illness caused by the spirits?
(a) It has come upon her suddenly.
(b) It continues to get worse with medical care.
(c) It is something the doctors are unable to properly diagnose or cure.
(d) It is a rare illness.

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

6. It is explained to these four that after the initiation, Alourdes will be what?
(a) Their Vodou mother.
(b) Their Vodou leader.
(c) Their Vodou sister.
(d) Their Vodou spirit.

7. What will they be forever?
(a) Brothers and sisters.
(b) Spiritual friends.
(c) Friends.
(d) Haitians.

8. 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) 'Koche.'
(c) 'Kouche.'
(d) 'Kache.'

9. 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 die.
(b) They will lose all power.
(c) They will lose their ancestral stories and their deepest connections to who they are.
(d) They will leave Haiti.

10. This spirit is never satisfied, always craving more ____________________.
(a) Children.
(b) Students.
(c) Love, wealth and honor.
(d) Men.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Maggie is hospitalized with what?

2. 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?

3. Each of these spirits exists in close relation to one another and, when considered as a group, are able to quite accurately paint a portrait of whom?

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

5. She is seen as the image of what?

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