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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. When Martha comes to visit the afternoon after the Tonton Macoutes come, what do she and Brown do for the first time?
(a) Quarrel about her husband.
(b) Quarrel about Angel.
(c) Make love outside.
(d) Sleep in his bed.

2. At the beginning of Chapter Two, why does Joseph ask Brown to attend a Voodoo ceremony?
(a) He is afraid to go out at night alone.
(b) He wants to show off his native culture to a white man.
(c) He needs a ride.
(d) He thinks Brown will be interested.

3. 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 he was deceitful about the water pipes on Desaix Street.
(c) He suggests that the doctor could not pay his gambling debts.
(d) He suggests that the doctor should not have invested in the shanty-town speculation.

4. What day do Brown and Jones leave town?
(a) Tuesday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Thursday.

5. Why do Jones and Brown go back to the Medea?
(a) Jones wants to ask advice from the captain.
(b) Brown does not know what else to do with Jones.
(c) The ship is the only place they can safely hide.
(d) Jones wants to travel to the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shoots Captain Concasseur and rescues Brown and Jones from capture?

2. Before beginning work on the vegetarian center, what does the Secretary for Social Welfare want from Mr. Smith?

3. When Brown and his ship friend return to the boat, why is the guard at the gangplank not threatening?

4. What makes Jones sad about dressing as a woman?

5. How do the policemen retaliate for the attack on the police station?

Short Essay Questions

1. In order to leave the Medea to travel to the British embassy, Jones dresses as a woman. What is the effect of this costume? How does it reflect on Jones?

2. 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?

3. When Jones realizes that Captain Conasseur is curious about his actions, he comes to Brown's hotel in a panic. What does this tell us about Jones's plan to get rich? How prepared is he to deal with the Tonton Macoutes?

4. 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?

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. When Mr. Smith, Brown, and the Secretary for Social Welfare survey Duvalierville with the purpose of building a vegetarian center, the only person they see is a justice of the peace. What is the irony of this man?

7. While lying in bed in the Hotel Trianon, Martha notes to brown that their relationship is no longer an adventure. What are the signs of this change? What are their choices for the future?

8. Young Philipot, who visits Brown while he is swimming one early afternoon, is consumed with the idea of owning a Bren gun and fighting Papa Doc's army with it. In his idealism, what other character does he resemble and why?

9. What is the significance of saying Doctor Philipot's coffin is filled with bricks?

10. 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?

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