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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Freda say she would introduce herself if she could?
(a) By naming her home town.
(b) By singing Brother Timonie.
(c) By telling her full family name and some of their history.
(d) By reciting a psalm.

2. What is the saying of Voltaire’s that Romain quotes to Michel?
(a) Blood is the price of eating sugar in Europe.
(b) The unexamined life is not worth living.
(c) To thine own self be true and you cannot be false to any man.
(d) Know yourself and you will know the world of the gods.

3. Where is Dany’s aunt coming from, when he arrives?
(a) A mass.
(b) A funeral.
(c) A visit with friends.
(d) A childbirth.

4. What does Beatrice want to do before she starts her interview with Aline?
(a) Have lunch.
(b) Put on makeup.
(c) Find out about Aline.
(d) Make coffee.

5. Why does Freda say she doodled in her notebook?
(a) To take out her aggressions on someone.
(b) To create figures to keep her company.
(c) To act out the fights she could not have in reality.
(d) To frighten herself.

6. Where is Michel telling the story of this time in Haiti?
(a) In prison with other men.
(b) In bed with his pregnant wife.
(c) Driving home with his son.
(d) On the bus talking with a stranger.

7. How did the prison guard torture Beatrice?
(a) Whipped her until she could not stand.
(b) Made her watch while he killed her family.
(c) Bloodied her feet, then made her walk home barefoot.
(d) Kept her awake for seven days on end.

8. Why does Freda sing Brother Timonie for her friends?
(a) To show off.
(b) To show them her funeral song.
(c) To honor her father.
(d) To remind them of home.

9. In "Monkey Tails," where does Michel say they should go, to see what is going on?
(a) The city center.
(b) The streets.
(c) The watch tower.
(d) The radio.

10. How does Beatrice think the prison guard keeps finding her?
(a) She always announces her changes of address to her clients.
(b) She believes there are spies in the Haitian community.
(c) She thinks he has friends in the post office.
(d) She thinks her assistance lets him know.

11. What does Freda say the president of Haiti would throw from his car at New Year’s?
(a) Pictures of himself.
(b) Money.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Food.

12. How does Aline characterize Beatrice’s state of mind to her editor?
(a) Lonely.
(b) Disturbed.
(c) Nutty.
(d) Haunted.

13. What name does Michel promise to give his unborn child?
(a) Tobin.
(b) Christophe.
(c) Regulus.
(d) Romain.

14. Where does Beatrice say the prison guard hides out?
(a) In people’s basements.
(b) In empty storefronts.
(c) Empty houses.
(d) In the alleys.

15. How does Freda says she got her start as a funeral singer?
(a) By singing at a distant relative’s funeral.
(b) By singing Brother Timonie at her father’s funeral service.
(c) By singing in her house when a funeral passed by.
(d) By singing in a school choir.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the one who starts the others telling stories about their personal lives?

2. Who does Freda say Brother Timonie was?

3. What does Aline taste in Beatrice’s coffee?

4. How old is Michel in story told in the "Monkey Tails" chapter?

5. Where does Beatrice Saint Fort live?

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