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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why has Eric stayed on in this cheap basement apartment?
(a) To save money for school
(b) To save money to buy a house.
(c) To save money for a baby.
(d) To save money for his wife.

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

3. How does the narrator characterize Eric’s declarations of love to his wife after she comes home with him?
(a) Babble.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Song.
(d) Prattle.

4. 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.

5. What has made the Cenegal nightclub famous since the days when Eric and Dany used to go there?
(a) The police attack on Amadou Diallo.
(b) The new DJ.
(c) The police attack on Abner Louima.
(d) The police attack on Patrick Dorismond.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ka explain to Gabrielle Fonteneau that she does not have the sculpture?

2. How old is Ka’s father?

3. What is Gabrielle Fonteneau’s profession?

4. Why does Ka say that her father destroyed the sculpture?

5. Where was Ka born and raised?

(see the answer key)

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