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

2. How does the narrator characterize Eric’s declarations of love to his wife after she comes home with him?
(a) Babble.
(b) Song.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Prattle.

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

4. What does Eric give his wife to drink when she arrives?
(a) Mango juice.
(b) Water.
(c) Passion fruit juice.
(d) Papaya juice.

5. Where was Ka born and raised?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
(c) Léogâne, Haiti.
(d) Detroit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Eric chastise himself for his behavior toward his landlady?

2. How does Eric’s wife keep her possessions from being nabbed by her relatives before she leaves?

3. When does Eric start to feel joy in anticipation of seeing his wife again?

4. Why does Ka say she wished her father would never stop smiling?

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

(see the answer key)

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