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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 Eric had promised to be with Nadine.
(b) It is the day Eric’s wife arrives.
(c) It is the day Nadine's baby would have been born.
(d) It is the day Nadine is going to call her family.

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

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

4. What does Nadine do instead of calling her parents?
(a) Weep.
(b) Watch tv.
(c) Go out for groceries.
(d) Read a book.

5. What does Ka say her father has learned confessions cannot do?
(a) Cleanse a guilty conscience.
(b) Repair an injury.
(c) Lighten living hearts.
(d) Purge a sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nadine not ask her co-worker Josette to tell Ms. Hinds’ parents that she cannot be found?

2. Why does Eric chastise himself for his behavior toward his landlady?

3. How does Ka’s father explain why he had to destroy the sculpture of himself?

4. How long has it been since Eric has seen his wife, at the beginning of the "Seven" chapter?

5. Why does Ka say she wished her father would never stop smiling?

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