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

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

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 Miracle, who is killed in the spring of 1987.
(b) Missing Mimose, 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. Where does Papa Gede live?
(a) In the sky.
(b) In the church.
(c) In the water.
(d) In the cemetery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. He represents the idea that Haitians must connect to what, while shedding their skin and recreating themselves as needed?

2. This chapter opens with Alourdes, Karen and a Jamaican woman named Mabel traveling to Jamaica and then onto Haiti in January of _________.

3. ______________ is an elusive creature of the deep sea, a siren.

4. She is seen as the image of what?

5. What happens to a person who catches a glimpse of her beneath the water that reaches out to touch her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What story takes place regarding Alourdes in the previous chapter? How is this related to this chapter?

2. What understanding does this chapter give us regarding Alourdes and her daughter?

3. Compare the focus on morality and sexuality in the Vodou culture as compared the many people in America? How do these differences affect many Americans' views of Vodou?

4. Who does Aunt Emma represent? Why is this important?

5. What are Philo's plans for Alourdes, prior to her birth? How does this plan change?

6. Who is important in this chapter? Why is she important in comparison to Alourdes?

7. How is the similarity described in number 45 significant?

8. How does Philo feel about Alourdes? Why might she feel this way?

9. What similarity exists between Marie Claire and Maggie?

10. How has Alourdes been like Ezili?

(see the answer keys)

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