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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 Eric look at his wife on the bus ride back home?
(a) As if he cannot see her enough.
(b) As if he were just seeing her for the first time.
(c) As if he is trying to see her for the first time.
(d) As if he does not recognize her.

2. Where have Anne and her husband gone to get Ka for this Christmas mass?
(a) Rockland county.
(b) Jersey City.
(c) Westchester county.
(d) Ulster county.

3. What does Freda say the president of Haiti would throw from his car at New Year’s?
(a) Food.
(b) Money.
(c) Pictures of himself.
(d) Clothing.

4. Whose hand has the dictator transferred power to, now that he is leaving?
(a) The people.
(b) The business community.
(c) The career politicians.
(d) The military.

5. What is the importance of the date of the final scene in the chapter "Water Child"?
(a) It is the day Nadine is going to call her family.
(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 Eric had promised to be with Nadine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country does The Book of the Dead come from?

2. How did the prison guard torture Beatrice?

3. Where does Anne’s husband go to see Egyptian sculptures?

4. Where was Ka born and raised?

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

(see the answer key)

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