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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Carnival tradition, who is a married couple supposed to find, to ask the person to marry them?
(a) The drunkest person they could find.
(b) The most sacred person they could find.
(c) The most musical person they could find.
(d) The most stone-faced person they could find.

2. Where does Eric work during the day?
(a) City Hall.
(b) The Rendez Vous night club.
(c) King’s County Hospital.
(d) Medgar Evers College.

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

4. What does the narrator say Eric’s wife smells like?
(a) Lavender and lime.
(b) Citron and heliotrope.
(c) Nutmeg and sage.
(d) Cinnamon and lilies.

5. What has Eric’s wife brought to the U.S. that does not make it through customs?
(a) Toiletries.
(b) Fruit.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Books.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How tall is the sculpture Ka made of her father?

4. What country does The Book of the Dead come from?

5. Where does Eric take his wife on the bus?

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