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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first is a _____________ in order to dislodge the spirits in one's head.
(a) Head cleansing.
(b) Head holding.
(c) Head healing.
(d) Head washing.

2. 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.

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

4. This chapter is about the female spirits who belong to the grouping known as ____________.
(a) Ezili.
(b) Lasyrenn.
(c) Danto.
(d) Freda.

5. When he finds her, she repeatedly refuses service to him. Why?
(a) The spirits have not come to her to explain how to treat the boy.
(b) She does not trust him.
(c) She does not want to help him.
(d) She does not believe she is capable of helping him.

6. What does this spirit tell her?
(a) How to make treatments.
(b) How to get revenge.
(c) How to put a curse on someone.
(d) How to find those who are lost.

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

8. _________________ is a white woman.
(a) Ezili Asrial.
(b) Ezili Freda.
(c) Ezili Lasyrenn.
(d) Ezili Danto.

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

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

11. Danbala operates from the territory of ______________, asking questions.
(a) Intellect.
(b) Blood and memory.
(c) Learning.
(d) Questioning.

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

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

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

15. Second is called ____________, to transform suffering into power.
(a) Konza.
(b) Kinza.
(c) Kenzo.
(d) Kanzo.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is explained to these four that after the initiation, Alourdes will be what?

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

3. 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.

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

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

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