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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jones reveals his opinion about scruples. What is this opinion?
(a) Scruples cost a lot.
(b) Scruples are an excuse.
(c) Scruples are not meant to be followed.
(d) Scruples have little effect on a man.

2. Before Brown and Smith leave the jail, what does Jones want them to do?
(a) Say a prayer with him.
(b) Give $20 and a note to the sergeant at the door.
(c) Arrange for better food to be brought to him.
(d) Promise to smuggle a knife in so he can escape.

3. When Brown disembarks from the Medea, why is Martha sitting in the place she used to rendezvous with him?
(a) She had nowhere else to go.
(b) Her car had broken down.
(c) She missed him.
(d) She was meeting another man.

4. After many years of silence, Brown received a message from his mother. What did the message say?
(a) She would like to see him if he ever came to Haiti.
(b) She was traveling to England and would like to see him.
(c) She had bought some property that she would like him to see.
(d) She was slowly dying.

5. Why does Doctor Magiot visit Brown one night?
(a) He misses Brown's mother.
(b) He gets lonely after the sun sets.
(c) He is hungry.
(d) He wants to intimidate him.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Mr. Smith tells Brown in a conversation in Part 1, Chapter 1, why is he proud of his wife?

2. Where did Brown and Martha first meet each other?

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

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

5. Why did Brown give Marcel a large amount of British money?

(see the answer key)

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