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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Unfortunately, Fouchard's plan all along is to do what?
(a) Return Philo to her mother as soon as possible.
(b) Sell Philo.
(c) Have Philo be the daughter she always wanted.
(d) Utilize Philo as a maid whom she will not have to pay.

2. According to legend, she is so ______________ that he almost faints the first time he sees her.
(a) Ugly.
(b) Cold.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Scary.

3. How does Mama Lola discover information through her sister-in-law?
(a) An e-mail.
(b) A phone call.
(c) A letter.
(d) Her dream.

4. The journey into rural Haiti is ____________ one.
(a) A grueling.
(b) An easy.
(c) An exciting.
(d) A strange.

5. Who should Karen marry?
(a) Mama Lola's brother.
(b) Mama Lola's son.
(c) Papa Ogou.
(d) Papa Gedes.

Short Answer Questions

1. She is taken back to _______________.

2. What is agreed upon between Mama Lola and Karen?

3. Why does he fund this?

4. Sina is strong and has saved money from what?

5. McCarthy Brown recounts in this chapter a trip she and Alourdes make together in ________ to Haiti.

Short Essay Questions

1. How might oral traditions be difficult for the reader?

2. How does one feel regarding Karen? Is it easy to sympathize with her? Why or why not?

3. What sets Alourdes further apart from the poor Haitians?

4. How do you feel about Karen marrying Ogou? How does this marriage change the path of Karen's life? What does this also teach her?

5. How does this similarity relate to their decision to take up the ason and serve the spirits?

6. What important themes in the world of Haitian Vodou are seen in this chapter?

7. What other imagery is used in this chapter? How does it affect the reader? What message does this imagery send?

8. How are Sina and Philo similar? What actions do they take? What does this reveal about them?

9. What does this chapter reveal about the Mauvant family and life in Haiti and in the Mauvant family compound?

10. How does this culture affect men like Macena? How is Sina finally able to escape him? How does this lead to a change in her life?

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