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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why is it safe for Brown to leave the cemetery, but not Jones?
(a) His one-day pass is still valid.
(b) People recognize him in that area.
(c) Being a white man, he blends into the general populace.
(d) He has an alibi with the smashed car.

4. Why did Jones not serve in the army in Burma like he claims?
(a) He has flat feet.
(b) He was dishonorably discharged in his first week.
(c) He has a weak heart.
(d) He has asthma.

5. What keeps Brown awake during the all-night voodoo ceremony?
(a) The face of young Philipot.
(b) The pounding of the drums.
(c) The sight of the young girls drinking.
(d) The mysterious liquor that was served.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Brown act toward the end of the Voodoo ceremony?

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

3. Why is Jones proud of his expansive liquor traveling case?

4. Lying on the ground next to his pool, Brown thinks that he and Martha are more intimate than ever before. Why is this?

5. How does the new Secretary for Social Welfare cast suspicion on Doctor Philipot's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Brown's car breaks down on the road, he and Jones take refuge in a cemetery until the morning. How does this fit their time in Haiti? How does it portend what is to come?

2. When Jones and Brown board the Medea so Jones can ask for asylum, Brown describes the ship's captain like a judge. What is the effect of this appearance? Is this the first time a judge figure has appeared in the book? How does this contrast to Haitian culture?

3. From even their first meeting, Brown hesitates to address Jones as "Major Jones." How does this begin to explain Jones's character? How does it prepare the reader for the revelation that Jones has never even seen a man die?

4. According to Doctor Magiot in Part 2, Chapter 1, what role does Voodoo play in Haitian culture? What is its relation to Catholicism?

5. The second time Brown visits the casino, the place is drastically changed from the night he met Martha. How is it different? What does this signal about Haiti's economy?

6. At the end of Part 2, Chapter 1, Brown comes to a realization about himself. What is this realization? How does it change the reader's understanding of him? How does it fit with his wandering to the casino and then to the Medea, talking with the purser?

7. Though Brown does not want to board the Medea for a last drink with the purser, he feels attached to the ship and the memories there. What does this say about Brown's loneliness? Is he happy alone in his hotel?

8. When Brown picks up Jones at the British embassy to smuggle him out of the city, how has Jones's attitude changed? What motivates this?

9. When just before leaving Haiti, Mr. Smith scatters money in front of the post office, what does he show about himself? Has he changed since he first came to the country?

10. As the two men wait out the night in the cemetery, Jones tells Brown the truth about his life. Is this a fitting time for his confession? Why would he confess to Brown instead of anyone else?

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