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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. Whose hand has the dictator transferred power to, now that he is leaving?
(a) The military.
(b) The business community.
(c) The career politicians.
(d) The people.

2. Why did Claude kill his father?
(a) His gang required it.
(b) His father was beating him.
(c) His father had confiscated his drugs.
(d) He had an outburst of anger.

3. Why is Ms. Hinds upset, when Nadine is called to her room?
(a) She is having a bad reaction to her medicines.
(b) She cannot see.
(c) She feels a lot of pain.
(d) She cannot speak.

4. Why does Eric chastise himself for his behavior toward his landlady?
(a) He says he acted like a manservant.
(b) He says that he was rude.
(c) He says he was unnecessarily brusque.
(d) He says that he acted like a child.

5. What kept Dany from making his presence known when he saw the dew breaker?
(a) The fear of killing the wrong person.
(b) The threat of retaliation from the man’s family.
(c) The logistics of getting away with murder.
(d) The dread of having murder on his conscience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reality of Michel’s father’s whereabouts?

2. What does Aline see when she looks into the house Beatrice calls the prison guard’s house?

3. Where does Nadine read her parents’ letter every day?

4. Why does Freda say she left Haiti?

5. What does Mariselle say President Kennedy’s widow Jacky Kennedy did to sadness?

(see the answer key)

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