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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: The Funeral Singer.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does Aline run into when she is looking into the house she thinks belongs to the Haitian prison guard?
(a) The Dominican social worker.
(b) The Jamaican schoolteacher.
(c) The Guyanaian dentist.
(d) The Italian baker.

4. What is Gabrielle Fonteneau’s profession?
(a) Accountant.
(b) Movie star.
(c) Painter.
(d) TV actress.

5. What sentence was passed on Constant when he was tried in Haiti in absentia?
(a) Life in prison.
(b) Execution.
(c) 25 years in prison.
(d) 50 years in prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Eric work during the day?

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

3. When does Anne go up to the man her daughter thought was Emmanuel Constant?

4. What does Freda say she is going to do when she goes back to Haiti?

5. What is Anne’s favorite Christmas song?

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