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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 is the mob doing to people it captures?
(a) Torturing them.
(b) Taking them to prison.
(c) Killing them.
(d) Forcing them to leave the city.

2. Why were prison guards called dew breakers?
(a) They would come for you early in the morning.
(b) They would break so many bones when they tortured people.
(c) The pain of torture would make sweat pop out on people’s skin like dew.
(d) They would come for you when the dew was settling.

3. Where are Ka and her father at the start of the book?
(a) New York City.
(b) Lakeland, Florida.
(c) Washington, DC.
(d) Port-au-Prince Haiti.

4. Where is Dany’s aunt coming from, when he arrives?
(a) A funeral.
(b) A childbirth.
(c) A visit with friends.
(d) A mass.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What quality does mistletoe have, according to Anne?

2. How does Michel characterize his mother?

3. How does Claude describe integrating back into his people’s community?

4. Where does Eric work during the day?

5. Why does Dany have to make excuses when he sees people in his aunt’s town?

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