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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Seven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of the maid’s personality reminds Ka of her mother?
(a) Her poor English.
(b) Her youth.
(c) Her limp.
(d) Her haughtiness.

2. What does Gabrielle Fonteneau say she liked about the sculpture?
(a) That it is powerful and restrained.
(b) That it is complex and elemental.
(c) That it was humble and regal.
(d) That it is emotional and innocent.

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

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

5. Why does Ka say she wished her father would never stop smiling?
(a) Because he could be vicious when he was not smiling.
(b) Because he smiled so rarely.
(c) Because he was so beautiful when he smiled.
(d) Because his smile hid his scar.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ka say her father has learned confessions cannot do?

3. What has made the Cenegal nightclub famous since the days when Eric and Dany used to go there?

4. What has Eric’s wife brought to the U.S. that does not make it through customs?

5. What does Eric notices his wife does at 5:11 p.m. while they are out in Brooklyn?

(see the answer key)

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