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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 is Eric meeting his wife?
(a) LaGuardia airport.
(b) Grand Central.
(c) JFK airport.
(d) Port Authority.

2. When does Eric start to feel joy in anticipation of seeing his wife again?
(a) Weeks before his wife arrives.
(b) At the airport.
(c) In the taxi on the way to meet her.
(d) The morning of his wife’s arrival.

3. What has made the Cenegal nightclub famous since the days when Eric and Dany used to go there?
(a) The police attack on Patrick Dorismond.
(b) The new DJ.
(c) The police attack on Amadou Diallo.
(d) The police attack on Abner Louima.

4. When does Eric’s wife finally feel that she is in another country?
(a) When her husband lifts her up in an embrace, then puts her back on the ground.
(b) When her plane touches down.
(c) When she sees the land underneath the plane as it descends.
(d) When the doors open out from Customs.

5. What does Ka say her father has learned confessions cannot do?
(a) Repair an injury.
(b) Cleanse a guilty conscience.
(c) Lighten living hearts.
(d) Purge a sin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Ka get in touch with Gabrielle Fonteneau, to sell her the sculpture?

3. What does Gabrielle Fonteneau say she liked about the sculpture?

4. How old is Nadine?

5. What does the narrator say Eric’s wife smells like?

(see the answer key)

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