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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3 Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Captain Concasseur order the Tonton Macoutes to hit and kick Brown?
(a) Because they are sadistic.
(b) Because the captain wanted to see Brown at his feet.
(c) They intended to beat him like they had beaten Joseph.
(d) So that they can say he was resisting arrest.

2. How did Marcel kill himself?
(a) Slit his wrists and throat.
(b) Jumped out a second-story window into the empty pool.
(c) Hung himself in the countess's bedroom.
(d) Drank two bottles of rum and contracted alcohol poisoning.

3. What are Jones's last words to Philipot?
(a) He wishes he could have seen Brown one last time.
(b) There is no room for him outside Haiti.
(c) He wishes he could have fought better.
(d) He regrets coming to Haiti.

4. Part 3, Chapter 1 opens with a dream that Brown has. What is this dream?
(a) The priest will not give him communion at church.
(b) Joseph comes back with no legs but moves faster than before.
(c) His mother is again lying in her bed, deathly ill.
(d) Martha has locked him in his own house with Angel.

5. In Part 1, Chapter 4, the charge explains what happened to his cook one night when he was supposed to be throwing a party. What happened?
(a) The cook refused to cook for those guests.
(b) The cook ran away the afternoon before.
(c) The cook was captured and tortured all weekend.
(d) The cook was thrown in jail overnight.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Jones want a business partner in the venture he is planning?

3. When Mrs. Smith appears on the porch, what is she wearing?

4. What moment, as Brown remembers the past, makes him feel that his business was finally a success?

5. According to the new Secretary for Social Welfare, why did Doctor Philipot not have a funeral?

(see the answer key)

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