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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sentence was passed on Constant when he was tried in Haiti in absentia?
(a) 25 years in prison.
(b) 50 years in prison.
(c) Execution.
(d) Life in prison.

2. How many microcassettes with Eric’s messages has Nadine added to her altar?
(a) Two.
(b) Nine.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

3. What is the theme Ka identifies in her mother’s stories of miracles?
(a) The people are all foreigners.
(b) The people are mostly children.
(c) The people are all poor.
(d) The people are all old women.

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

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

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

7. How does Ka explain to Gabrielle Fonteneau that she does not have the sculpture?
(a) She says that it fell apart in transit.
(b) She says that another buyer claimed it.
(c) She says that she could not part with it.
(d) She says that her father did not like it.

8. 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 musical person they could find.
(c) The most sacred person they could find.
(d) The most stone-faced person they could find.

9. What does Ka say her father has learned confessions cannot do?
(a) Lighten living hearts.
(b) Cleanse a guilty conscience.
(c) Repair an injury.
(d) Purge a sin.

10. What had Constant’s role been in Haiti, before he moved to the U.S.?
(a) President’s body guard.
(b) Head of a death squad.
(c) Politician.
(d) Prison guard.

11. Where does Anne’s husband go to see Egyptian sculptures?
(a) The Metropolitan Museum.
(b) The Brooklyn Museum.
(c) The Smithsonian.
(d) The Guggenheim.

12. Why has Eric stayed on in this cheap basement apartment?
(a) To save money for a baby.
(b) To save money to buy a house.
(c) To save money for school
(d) To save money for his wife.

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

14. What procedure has Ms. Hinds had performed in the hospital?
(a) Laryngectomy.
(b) Lumpectomy.
(c) Cataract surgery.
(d) Hysterectomy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Eric start to feel joy in anticipation of seeing his wife again?

2. What does Anne say is the only part of the drive around the neighborhood Ka seems to enjoy?

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

4. How old is Nadine?

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

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