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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. 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 stone-faced person they could find.
(d) The most musical person they could find.

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

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

4. Where is Fonteneau visiting her parents, that Ka is bringing her the sculpture?
(a) Orlando.
(b) St. Augustine.
(c) Tampa.
(d) Jacksonville.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Nadine calls Eric back?

2. What do Nadine’s parents ask her to do, in their letter?

3. What does Eric give his wife to drink when she arrives?

4. What is Nadine’s reputation on the ward where she works?

5. How does Nadine’s mother characterize her father’s health in her letter to Nadine?

(see the answer key)

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