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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What is Emmanuel Constant wanted for?
(a) For murder.
(b) For crimes against humanity.
(c) Crimes against the Haitian people.
(d) For financial crimes.

13. How does Gabrielle Fonteneau react when Ka tells her that she does not have the sculpture?
(a) She is disappointed but gracious.
(b) She is furious and betrayed.
(c) She is wounded and feels taken advantage of.
(d) She is cold and withdraws.

14. When had Ka declared herself an atheist?
(a) In middle school.
(b) After college.
(c) In high school.
(d) In college.

15. Why does Ka’s father say that he does not deserve to have a statue?
(a) Because he was not a prisoner but a prison guard.
(b) Because he should have a monument to his sins.
(c) Because the troubles in Haiti should be forgotten.
(d) Because his daughter has turned him into something he never was.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Ms. Hinds?

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

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

4. What does Ka say her father has learned confessions cannot do?

5. Where does Eric work at night?

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