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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Book of Miracles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the theme Ka identifies in her mother’s stories of miracles?
(a) The people are all old women.
(b) The people are mostly children.
(c) The people are all foreigners.
(d) The people are all poor.

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

3. What is Emmanuel Constant wanted for?
(a) For financial crimes.
(b) For murder.
(c) For crimes against humanity.
(d) Crimes against the Haitian people.

4. Why is Ms. Hinds upset, when Nadine is called to her room?
(a) She feels a lot of pain.
(b) She cannot see.
(c) She is having a bad reaction to her medicines.
(d) She cannot speak.

5. What quality does mistletoe have, according to Anne?
(a) Prophetic.
(b) Reconciliatory.
(c) Amorous.
(d) Divinatory.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nadine characterize the woman she sees reflected in the elevator doors?

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

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

4. When does Eric’s wife finally feel that she is in another country?

5. How old is Ka’s father?

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