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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. Why does Nadine not ask her co-worker Josette to tell Ms. Hinds’ parents that she cannot be found?
(a) She does not want to owe Josette a favor.
(b) She does not want to let Ms. Hinds go home without seeing her.
(c) She does not want that camaradarie with Josette.
(d) She does not want Josette to see her acting weak.

2. What does Denise Auguste bring Dany and his aunt?
(a) Water.
(b) Gifts.
(c) Food.
(d) Clothing.

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

4. What sentence was passed on Constant when he was tried in Haiti in absentia?
(a) 25 years in prison.
(b) 50 years in prison.
(c) Life in prison.
(d) Execution.

5. What had Constant’s role been in Haiti, before he moved to the U.S.?
(a) Prison guard.
(b) Head of a death squad.
(c) Politician.
(d) President’s body guard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the importance of the date of the final scene in the chapter "Water Child"?

2. What does Nadine do instead of calling her parents?

3. What do Dany and Michel purchase, to make Eric’s wife more at home?

4. Where was Ka born and raised?

5. What does Ka say her father has learned confessions cannot do?

(see the answer key)

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