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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gede's domination of the realm of death is reflective of a time when males held the power in Haitian families, and this is not the case any longer. In consequence, and in showing how flexible and ever-evolving the culture of Vodou is, a strong female version of Gede is slowly emerging, whose name is _____________.
(a) Gedelia.
(b) Gedenia.
(c) Gerte.
(d) Geda.

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 lose all power.
(c) They will leave Haiti.
(d) They will die.

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

4. In July of 1981, they travel to Haiti and meet up with a Haitian woman named ____________ who will undergo the initiation as well.
(a) Maddie.
(b) May.
(c) Mimose.
(d) Miracle.

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

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

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

8. We learn that the main focus of Alourdes' healing energy is directed at what?
(a) Her family.
(b) The deeper issues that are uncovered during the course of her treatment.
(c) The spirits on the land.
(d) The people who live on this land.

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

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

11. In this chapter, Alourdes, Maggie, Karen, Big Daddy and Maggie's children arrive at Karen's new ______________ apartment in Manhattan.
(a) TriBeCa.
(b) Chelsea.
(c) Lower East Side.
(d) West Village.

12. ______________ is an elusive creature of the deep sea, a siren.
(a) Lasyrenn.
(b) Freda.
(c) Asrial.
(d) Danto.

13. The spirit Papa Danbala is very _________, so when he "mounts" his horse, or manbo, in the possession-performance, he utters sounds only and does not speak.
(a) Feeble.
(b) Young.
(c) Afraid.
(d) Old.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. During this procedure, she dreams of ____________ that makes her swear she will take the ason. She does swear it, and the medical procedure is a success.

3. Alourdes, Mabel and Karen travel to a large _______________ in Kingston where Alourdes is to "treat" a parcel of land the owner needs to sell.

4. ____________________ when she agrees to return to her family land in Jean Rabel to give a feast for the family spirits.

5. This chapter is a story about the life of Alourdes' ______________, Philomise.

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