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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: The Funeral Singer.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of days do Freda, Mariselle and Rézia raise their glasses to?
(a) Uncertain.
(b) Tumultuous.
(c) Secure.
(d) Happy.

3. Where does Anne’s husband go to see Egyptian sculptures?
(a) The Smithsonian.
(b) The Metropolitan Museum.
(c) The Guggenheim.
(d) The Brooklyn Museum.

4. Where is Anne’s husband’s barber shop?
(a) In an almost all-white community.
(b) In a big neighborhood of mixed races.
(c) In the middle of the Haitian community.
(d) In an African community.

5. Who is the one who starts the others telling stories about their personal lives?
(a) Mariselle.
(b) Freda.
(c) Mariselle’s husband.
(d) Rézia.

Short Answer Questions

1. When had Ka declared herself an atheist?

2. Where are Ka and her father at the start of the book?

3. Why did Claude kill his father?

4. Why does Estina call for Claude to meet Dany?

5. What caused Ka’s father to lose his teeth?

(see the answer key)

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