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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. After losing this, she subsequently had a dream of what?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Losing her daughter.
(c) Being pursued by the spirits and meeting them with resistance.
(d) Looking for the spirits.

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

3. Healers such as Alourdes are specialists who are for hire in order to do what?
(a) Bring peace to all Haitians.
(b) Talk to the spirits.
(c) Make the spirits happy.
(d) Assist in the labor required to orchestrate good luck.

4. Alourdes remembers whose birth?
(a) Karen's.
(b) Her own.
(c) Maggie's.
(d) The spirits'.

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.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What will they be forever?

4. _________________ is a white woman.

5. How do they know this illness is a sure sign of illness caused by the spirits?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the purpose of the Ezili spirits?

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. How do each of the four initiates handle the initiation rites? Who handles it the best?

5. How is myth important in Alourdes' life of Vodou?

6. What is learned about the choices made regarding the women in this culture?

7. What is one of the most important lessons learned about the practice of Vodou from reading this book? How is Karen's involvement in Mama Lola's story important to most readers of this book?

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

9. What do all the women in this family have in common?

10. What is learned about participating in the initiation rite?

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