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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Martha comes to visit Brown at his hotel, what alters their plans to go upstairs?
(a) Her husband's demand to return home soon.
(b) The Smiths sitting on the porch.
(c) Angel's sudden turn for the worse.
(d) Joseph wandering the hotel because he cannot sleep.

2. Why is Brown on the military base near Santo Domingo?
(a) To make a political connection.
(b) To apply for an exit visa.
(c) To apply for a catering job.
(d) To visit his mother's brother.

3. What is Brown's plan to get through the road-blocks with Jones?
(a) Drive during a storm.
(b) Dress Jones up as a woman again.
(c) Bribe the Tontons Macoute.
(d) Hide Jones in the trunk of the car.

4. Why does Brown leave the military base?
(a) The attempt to make a political connection fails.
(b) He does not get the exit-visa.
(c) His mother's brother is dead.
(d) He does not get the job.

5. When Brown steps off the ship, who fills the port?
(a) Taxi drivers.
(b) Tonton Macoutes.
(c) Beggars.
(d) Postal employees.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Brown walks up the stairs to say hello to Angel, what does the boy show him?

2. What is Martha's opinion of Jones's relation to her family?

3. Sitting by the pool on his first night home, what does Brown remember?

4. When Brown disembarks from the Medea, why is Martha sitting in the place she used to rendezvous with him?

5. What were the countess's last words to her son?

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