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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 the priest do with the bodies which the dancers bring to him?
(a) Burns tiny pieces of their burial shrouds.
(b) Chants over them.
(c) Holds their arms into the fire.
(d) Holds their feet into the fire.

2. After visiting Duvalierville, what does Mr. Smith think about the vegetarian center?
(a) Perhaps he should not pursue the project.
(b) The project is hopeless and he will leave the country right away.
(c) He should begin building immediately.
(d) He will need much more money than he had anticipated.

3. The day before Brown and Jones leave, why does Captain Concasseur visit Brown at his hotel?
(a) To threaten him if he exceeds his one-day pass.
(b) To intimidate him into not going.
(c) To tell him that Tonton Macoutes will check him at every roadblock.
(d) To give him false information, hoping to lure him into a trap.

4. In Chapter 1 of Part 2, when Brown takes Mr. Smith to the post office, what happens?
(a) Mr. Smith is mobbed by five beggars.
(b) Mr. Smith get in an argument with a one-legged man.
(c) Mr. Smith exits by the wrong door and is lost.
(d) They are questioned about their errand by a Tonton Macoute.

5. 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 president has begun a search for him.
(c) The police have issued a warrant for his arrest.
(d) Concasseur has begun investigating his business plan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jones forget at the hotel when he and Brown flee?

2. Part 3, Chapter 1 opens with a dream that Brown has. What is this dream?

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

4. As Brown and young Philipot converse near the hotel pool, what does Philipot reveal that he is obsessed with?

5. As Jones is escaping from Port-au-Prince, why are he and Brown two hours late for their rendezvous?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the purpose of the Tonton Macoutes' visit to Brown at six o'clock in the morning? Do they expect to find anyone?

3. 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?

4. When Brown attends the Voodoo ceremony with Joseph, several white-wrapped bodies are held close to the flame so that the skin burns. What is the effect of this scene? What is its possible antecedent?

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. Why do the Smiths change their minds about opening a vegetarian center? How does the Secretary for Social Welfare misunderstand Mr. Smith?

8. 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?

9. 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?

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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