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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Brown's idea to help Jones escape?
(a) Drive him across the border.
(b) Send him to fight with Philipot.
(c) Get him an exit-visa through the Venezuelan embassy.
(d) Smuggle him past the Tontons Macoute into the forest.

2. Rather than participating in the night of entertainment, what does Mr. Fernandez do?
(a) Bursts into tears.
(b) Becomes seasick.
(c) Fails to appear at all.
(d) Bursts out laughing.

3. Why does Joseph limp?
(a) He had a childhood disease that crippled him.
(b) A jeep had run over his foot.
(c) The Tonton Macoutes beat him up.
(d) He was wounded in the war.

4. Sitting by the pool on his first night home, what does Brown remember?
(a) His conversation with Mrs. Smith.
(b) The sounds of the busy tourist season.
(c) Joseph's list of things that have gone wrong in his absence.
(d) The smell of Martha's perfume.

5. What does Jones name the ambassador's new dog?
(a) Midge.
(b) Don Juan.
(c) Mosquito.
(d) T-bone.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the news of Hamit (who had rented a room to Brown and Martha in the past)?

3. During the ship's night of entertainment, what does Mr. Baxter recite?

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

5. When the Smiths first arrive at the Hotel Trianon, what does Mr. Smith think of the body crouched in the pool?

(see the answer key)

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