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

2. Where does Nadine live?
(a) Canarsie.
(b) Far Rockaway.
(c) Off Prospect Park.
(d) Brooklyn Heights.

3. How does Ka’s father explain why he had to destroy the sculpture of himself?
(a) He was not a prisoner.
(b) He cannot allow someone else to own a piece of his soul.
(c) He cannot let the humiliation he suffered continue to exist.
(d) His sufferings were never noble.

4. What do Nadine’s parents ask her to do, in their letter?
(a) Send money.
(b) Come home.
(c) Call them.
(d) Write them back.

5. How did Ka get in touch with Gabrielle Fonteneau, to sell her the sculpture?
(a) They met at a gallery opening.
(b) Through a friend.
(c) Fonteneau found her on the internet.
(d) Through the Haitian American Weekly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nadine’s mother characterize her father’s health in her letter to Nadine?

2. How old is Ka’s father?

3. Where is Fonteneau visiting her parents, that Ka is bringing her the sculpture?

4. Where was Ka born and raised?

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

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