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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Anne’s favorite Christmas song?
(a) God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.
(b) Silent Night.
(c) Sleigh Ride.
(d) The Drummer Boy.

3. When does Eric’s wife finally feel that she is in another country?
(a) When she sees the land underneath the plane as it descends.
(b) When her husband lifts her up in an embrace, then puts her back on the ground.
(c) When her plane touches down.
(d) When the doors open out from Customs.

4. What was Anne’s family’s Christmas tradition?
(a) To let their neighbors cover their house in lights.
(b) Not to put up lights.
(c) To cover their house in lights.
(d) To put up a few tasteful lights.

5. Where are Ka and her father at the start of the book?
(a) Lakeland, Florida.
(b) Port-au-Prince Haiti.
(c) Washington, DC.
(d) New York City.

6. What did Eric and his wife forego during carnival?
(a) The tradition of getting married.
(b) The tradition of cross-dressing.
(c) The tradition of sleeping with other people.
(d) The tradition of asking a stranger to marry them.

7. How does Nadine’s mother characterize her father’s health in her letter to Nadine?
(a) Fantastic.
(b) Improving.
(c) Unreliable.
(d) Terrible.

8. How long has it been since Eric has seen his wife, at the beginning of the "Seven" chapter?
(a) Seven weeks.
(b) Seven months.
(c) Seven days.
(d) Seven years.

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

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

11. 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 had promised to be with Nadine.
(c) It is the day Nadine's baby would have been born.
(d) It is the day Eric’s wife arrives.

12. When does Eric start to feel joy in anticipation of seeing his wife again?
(a) The morning of his wife’s arrival.
(b) Weeks before his wife arrives.
(c) At the airport.
(d) In the taxi on the way to meet her.

13. Where does Eric take his wife on the bus?
(a) Prospect Park.
(b) The Brooklyn Bridge.
(c) City Hall.
(d) Brooklyn Heights.

14. How frequently has Eric called Nadine since they split up?
(a) Biweekly.
(b) Monthly.
(c) Weekly.
(d) Daily.

15. What has made the Cenegal nightclub famous since the days when Eric and Dany used to go there?
(a) The police attack on Patrick Dorismond.
(b) The police attack on Abner Louima.
(c) The new DJ.
(d) The police attack on Amadou Diallo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ka’s father leave the Fonteneaus’ house with?

2. How many microcassettes with Eric’s messages has Nadine added to her altar?

3. What caused Ka’s father to lose his teeth?

4. How old is Eric, the main character of the "Seven" chapter?

5. How old was Ka when she started studying art?

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