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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Creeper know has already been put into a canon she sees in Part IV?
(a) Zyclon B.
(b) Shango's Thunder.
(c) Cyanide.
(d) Drapeto gas.

2. What does Duval hold when Creeper and the captain first see him?
(a) A gun.
(b) A cane.
(c) A pin.
(d) A red carpet bag.

3. What did Dessalines think about the one time Haiti used the Black God's Drums?
(a) People liked it too much.
(b) He had no opinion.
(c) It was too weak.
(d) It was too powerful and destructive.

4. Which countries have been trying to get their hands on the substance the nuns give the captain for years?
(a) Britain.
(b) France and Germany.
(c) Canada.
(d) Haiti and the Free Isles.

5. What does Agnes suggest Eunice give up for Lent?
(a) Her chocolate.
(b) Her sleepwalking.
(c) Her sharp tongue.
(d) Her whiskey.

6. Who were the original Hideaways?
(a) Old Goddesses.
(b) Black people who were in slave uprisings.
(c) White people who ran to the swamp for refuge once.
(d) Old priests.

7. What do the well-off do when the tempetes noires come to New Orleans?
(a) Build shelters.
(b) Leave.
(c) Hunker down.
(d) Cast spells.

8. What does the captain say about communing with the Goddesses?
(a) She does not really know a Goddess.
(b) They possess you.
(c) It is always painful to hear them.
(d) You have to let them in.

9. What weapon does the captain say Dessalines used on the French after the Black God's Drums?
(a) Drapeto gas.
(b) Finicky rib.
(c) Oshun's arrow.
(d) Green sticky-sticky fire.

10. What does Duval say he will not leave without?
(a) His wife.
(b) His suit.
(c) His Jewel.
(d) His flower.

11. What is the name of the bearded Haitian?
(a) Rick.
(b) Henry.
(c) Francois.
(d) Morin.

12. Why were some stone buildings and houses abandoned in the swamp?
(a) They are houses of the Goddesses.
(b) The first tempete noire flooded the swamp and ruined all the houses.
(c) They are haunted.
(d) They are claimed by the Confederacy.

13. About how often do the tempetes noires come to New Orleans now?
(a) Once per year.
(b) Once every ten years.
(c) Once every two years.
(d) Once every five years.

14. Who runs a guerilla war?
(a) General Tubman.
(b) General Henry.
(c) General Whirl.
(d) General Strao.

15. What does Eunice say about the captain and Creeper?
(a) They need each other.
(b) They are destined to hurt each other.
(c) They may be lovers some day.
(d) They are like mother and daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What protects the person who comes after Creeper and Jewel in Part IV?

2. What startles the captain about the two sisters Eunice and Agnes?

3. What does Creeper recognize in a long bit of raggy cloth on a shack in Part IV?

4. Who was Dessalines's own inventor?

5. What does the captain say she does not get from Oshun?

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