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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Jones appears at the hotel in the middle of the night, drenched and drunk, why is he afraid?
(a) Several Tontons Macoute have appeared at his house.
(b) The police have issued a warrant for his arrest.
(c) The president has begun a search for him.
(d) Concasseur has begun investigating his business plan.

2. How does Brown describe the new Secretary for Social Welfare?
(a) As the caricatured devil.
(b) As a flower under the heel of a Tonton Macoute.
(c) As a cemetery with gravestone-like teeth.
(d) As a large bus driven by a child.

3. Why does Jones want a business partner in the venture he is planning?
(a) To watch things while he travels.
(b) To manage the financial side while he arranges the business contacts.
(c) To take over when he retires.
(d) To assist him with the planning.

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. When Brown and his ship friend return to the boat, why is the guard at the gangplank not threatening?
(a) They had shot and killed him.
(b) They had knocked him unconscious.
(c) They had threatened him with a pistol.
(d) They had bribed him with alcohol.

6. How do the policemen retaliate for the attack on the police station?
(a) Set fire to three houses along the wharf.
(b) Re-impose the curfew.
(c) Set fire to several businesses.
(d) Kill two men from the prison.

7. What does Jones forget at the hotel when he and Brown flee?
(a) His suitcase.
(b) His cocktail case.
(c) His rain jacket.
(d) His briefcase.

8. Why do Mr. and Mrs. Smith decide not to build the vegetarian center?
(a) They are weary of fighting the Haitian way of thinking.
(b) There are too many bureaucratic hoops to jump through.
(c) It would take too many years to finish.
(d) The Minister has no intention of helping them.

9. How does the new Secretary for Social Welfare cast suspicion on Doctor Philipot's death?
(a) He suggests that there was just retribution by the authorities.
(b) He suggests that the doctor should not have invested in the shanty-town speculation.
(c) He suggests that the doctor could not pay his gambling debts.
(d) He suggests that he was deceitful about the water pipes on Desaix Street.

10. What makes Jones sad about dressing as a woman?
(a) Shame at not looking like a man, as usual.
(b) Having to wear lipstick.
(c) Shaving off his moustache.
(d) Not knowing how to manage his skirts.

11. When Brown, Smith, and the Secretary for Social Welfare arrive at Duvalierville, who is the only person in sight?
(a) The American ambassador, who is interested in the project.
(b) A beggar missing an arm.
(c) A Tonton Macoute guard.
(d) A man with a sign declaring him to be the justice of the peace.

12. 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) Joseph wandering the hotel because he cannot sleep.
(d) Angel's sudden turn for the worse.

13. Why do Brown and Jones sleep in the cemetery until daybreak?
(a) There is no other shelter from the rain.
(b) Haitians think only zombies are abroad at night, and they won't go there.
(c) Brown wants to be as far from the road as possible.
(d) The area is heavily populated and there is nowhere else to hide.

14. According to the new Secretary for Social Welfare, why did Doctor Philipot not have a funeral?
(a) His coffin was filled with bricks.
(b) His widow did not want a funeral.
(c) In accordance with Voodoo tradition, there was no burial ceremony.
(d) He had requested cremation.

15. When Brown visits Jones the afternoon after the Smiths leave town, what do the two men drink?
(a) White wine.
(b) Martinis.
(c) Rum.
(d) Whiskey.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Part 1, Chapter 3, as the Smiths are being driven to the airport, what does Mr. Smith do?

2. When Brown asks the ambassador to allow Jones to stay in his house, what is the ambassador's reaction?

3. Why does the Secretary for Social Welfare suggest that Duvalierville is a good place for the Smiths' vegetarian center?

4. Mrs. Smith is proud of the American ballot that shows her husband's name as a presidential candidate. What is Brown's perception of voting in Haiti?

5. Why does Captain Concasseur order the Tonton Macoutes to hit and kick Brown?

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