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

2. How old is Ka’s father?
(a) 84.
(b) 65.
(c) 59.
(d) 72.

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

4. Why does Ka’s father say that he does not deserve to have a statue?
(a) Because he should have a monument to his sins.
(b) Because his daughter has turned him into something he never was.
(c) Because the troubles in Haiti should be forgotten.
(d) Because he was not a prisoner but a prison guard.

5. How many microcassettes with Eric’s messages has Nadine added to her altar?
(a) Nine.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eric look at his wife on the bus ride back home?

2. How old is Eric, the main character of the "Seven" chapter?

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

4. What is Gabrielle Fonteneau’s profession?

5. How does Ka’s father explain why he had to destroy the sculpture of himself?

(see the answer key)

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