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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Water Child.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Nadine read her parents’ letter every day?
(a) In the subway.
(b) In her living room.
(c) In her bed.
(d) In the hospital cafeteria.

2. What does the narrator say Eric’s wife smells like?
(a) Nutmeg and sage.
(b) Citron and heliotrope.
(c) Cinnamon and lilies.
(d) Lavender and lime.

3. How does Nadine characterize the woman she sees reflected in the elevator doors?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Unrecognizable.
(c) Passionate.
(d) Forgotten.

4. How does Eric’s wife keep her possessions from being nabbed by her relatives before she leaves?
(a) Gives them away.
(b) Hides them.
(c) Locks them up.
(d) Gift wraps them.

5. In the Carnival tradition, who is a married couple supposed to find, to ask the person to marry them?
(a) The most sacred person they could find.
(b) The most musical person they could find.
(c) The drunkest person they could find.
(d) The most stone-faced person they could find.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nadine not ask her co-worker Josette to tell Ms. Hinds’ parents that she cannot be found?

2. What aspect of the maid’s personality reminds Ka of her mother?

3. Where does Eric work at night?

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

5. What happens when Nadine calls Eric back?

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