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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Night Talkers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the theme Ka identifies in her mother’s stories of miracles?
(a) The people are all foreigners.
(b) The people are all poor.
(c) The people are all old women.
(d) The people are mostly children.

2. What does Dany's pain while walking make him think of?
(a) His father who lost his eyesight to cancer.
(b) His grandmother who lost afoot to gangrene.
(c) His brother who died of a stomach infection.
(d) His roommate Michel who had an appendectomy.

3. How does Claude describe integrating back into his people’s community?
(a) Being a puzzle the people are putting together.
(b) Being sick and getting better.
(c) Being a lost child and coming home.
(d) Being a fragment of a manuscript, and hearing the rest.

4. How does Gabrielle Fonteneau react when Ka tells her that she does not have the sculpture?
(a) She is disappointed but gracious.
(b) She is wounded and feels taken advantage of.
(c) She is furious and betrayed.
(d) She is cold and withdraws.

5. What quality does mistletoe have, according to Anne?
(a) Reconciliatory.
(b) Prophetic.
(c) Amorous.
(d) Divinatory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sentence was passed on Constant when he was tried in Haiti in absentia?

2. What are Nadine’s parents delighted to report having seen outside their house?

3. How does Nadine characterize the woman she sees reflected in the elevator doors?

4. What does the next letter Nadine receives from her parents have to report?

5. Where is Dany’s aunt coming from, when he arrives?

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