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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. What is the importance of the date of the final scene in the chapter "Water Child"?
(a) It is the day Eric’s wife arrives.
(b) It is the day Nadine is going to call her family.
(c) It is the day Eric had promised to be with Nadine.
(d) It is the day Nadine's baby would have been born.

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

3. How does Claude describe integrating back into his people’s community?
(a) Being a fragment of a manuscript, and hearing the rest.
(b) Being a lost child and coming home.
(c) Being a puzzle the people are putting together.
(d) Being sick and getting better.

4. How does the narrator says that Anne feels about having stopped having epileptic seizures?
(a) Redeemed.
(b) Forgiven.
(c) Free.
(d) Resurrected.

5. Why does Freda sing Brother Timonie for her friends?
(a) To show them her funeral song.
(b) To show off.
(c) To remind them of home.
(d) To honor her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Denise Auguste?

2. How does Ka characterize her mother’s stories of miracles?

3. When did Estina lose her eyesight?

4. What does Aline say she studied in school?

5. Why is Ms. Hinds upset, when Nadine is called to her room?

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