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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anne do when the car her family is in passes the cemetery?
(a) Praises the dead.
(b) Talks about her younger brother who died.
(c) Says a prayer.
(d) Holds her breath.

2. Where is Anne’s husband’s barber shop?
(a) In the middle of the Haitian community.
(b) In an African community.
(c) In an almost all-white community.
(d) In a big neighborhood of mixed races.

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

4. What do Nadine’s parents ask her to do, in their letter?
(a) Come home.
(b) Send money.
(c) Write them back.
(d) Call them.

5. What does Anne’s daughter (Ka) respond with when Anne tries to tell her about a miracle?
(a) “Whatever.”
(b) “Cool.”
(c) “Really?”
(d) “Ouch.”

6. How much time has gone by since Nadine got the letter that she has not acted on?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Ten days.
(c) Three days.
(d) Three moneys.

7. 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 Eric had promised to be with Nadine.
(d) It is the day Nadine's baby would have been born.

8. What are Nadine’s parents delighted to report having seen outside their house?
(a) A rainbow.
(b) A lizard.
(c) A hummingbird.
(d) A frangipani flower.

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

10. How does Ka characterize her mother’s stories of miracles?
(a) Fabulous.
(b) Colorful.
(c) Far-fetched.
(d) Incredible.

11. What does Eric notices his wife does at 5:11 p.m. while they are out in Brooklyn?
(a) Check her phone.
(b) Say she wants to go home.
(c) Take his hand.
(d) Look for someone in a crowd.

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

13. 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 the doors open out from Customs.
(d) When her plane touches down.

14. How tall is the sculpture Ka made of her father?
(a) Twelve feet.
(b) Three feet.
(c) Six feet.
(d) One foot.

15. How does Nadine characterize the woman she sees reflected in the elevator doors?
(a) Passionate.
(b) Unrecognizable.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Forgotten.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Eric meeting his wife?

3. How does the narrator says that Anne feels about having stopped having epileptic seizures?

4. Why does Nadine not ask her co-worker Josette to tell Ms. Hinds’ parents that she cannot be found?

5. What department of the hospital does Nadine work in?

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