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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Water Child.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the importance of the date of the final scene in the chapter "Water Child"?
(a) It is the day Nadine's baby would have been born.
(b) It is the day Nadine is going to call her family.
(c) It is the day Eric had promised to be with Nadine.
(d) It is the day Eric’s wife arrives.

2. Where was Ka born and raised?
(a) Léogâne, Haiti.
(b) Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Detroit.

3. What is Nadine’s reputation on the ward where she works?
(a) Open and confiding
(b) Not friendly.
(c) Conspiratorial.
(d) Professional and cold.

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

5. What does Ka’s father leave the Fonteneaus’ house with?
(a) Fruits from their garden.
(b) Fish from their lake.
(c) Lemongrass.
(d) Flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gabrielle Fonteneau react when Ka tells her that she does not have the sculpture?

2. What does Nadine do instead of calling her parents?

3. What are Nadine’s parents delighted to report having seen outside their house?

4. What is a ka, in The Book of the Dead?

5. What aspect of the maid’s personality reminds Ka of her mother?

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