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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 all old women.
(d) The people are mostly children.

2. What department of the hospital does Nadine work in?
(a) Pediatric oncology.
(b) Rheumatology.
(c) Ear Nose and Throat.
(d) Oncology.

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

4. Where does Nadine read her parents’ letter every day?
(a) In the subway.
(b) In her bed.
(c) In her living room.
(d) In the hospital cafeteria.

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

6. What is the miracle Anne is trying to tell Ka about?
(a) A man who was saved from a falling building.
(b) A girl crying crystal tears.
(c) A man who saw Jesus’ image in a rose petal.
(d) A woman whose cancer was cured.

7. What do Dany and Michel purchase, to make Eric’s wife more at home?
(a) Curtains.
(b) Robes.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Furniture.

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

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

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

11. Why does Eric chastise himself for his behavior toward his landlady?
(a) He says he was unnecessarily brusque.
(b) He says that he was rude.
(c) He says he acted like a manservant.
(d) He says that he acted like a child.

12. How old is Ka’s father?
(a) 65.
(b) 59.
(c) 72.
(d) 84.

13. How old is Ms. Hinds?
(a) 64.
(b) 39.
(c) 32.
(d) 25.

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

15. Where was Ka born and raised?
(a) Léogâne, Haiti.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What has Eric’s wife brought to the U.S. that does not make it through customs?

3. Where are Ka and her father at the start of the book?

4. What does Nadine do instead of calling her parents?

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

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