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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Anne say is the only part of the drive around the neighborhood Ka seems to enjoy?
(a) Seeing people in the streets.
(b) Criticizing the houses.
(c) Admiring the lights.
(d) Getting home for a big dinner.

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

5. Where does Nadine live?
(a) Off Prospect Park.
(b) Far Rockaway.
(c) Brooklyn Heights.
(d) Canarsie.

6. 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.

7. What is Nadine’s reputation on the ward where she works?
(a) Open and confiding
(b) Conspiratorial.
(c) Not friendly.
(d) Professional and cold.

8. How does Ka say her father reacted when she tried to take his picture?
(a) Like a great man in front of admirers.
(b) Like a ham in front of an audience.
(c) Like a child afraid of a slap.
(d) Like a beautiful woman being flattered.

9. What does Eric give his wife to drink when she arrives?
(a) Passion fruit juice.
(b) Papaya juice.
(c) Mango juice.
(d) Water.

10. How does Eric’s wife keep her possessions from being nabbed by her relatives before she leaves?
(a) Hides them.
(b) Locks them up.
(c) Gift wraps them.
(d) Gives them away.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Eric chastise himself for his behavior toward his landlady?

3. What is a ka, in The Book of the Dead?

4. How does Eric look at his wife on the bus ride back home?

5. What has made the Cenegal nightclub famous since the days when Eric and Dany used to go there?

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