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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. How does Nadine’s mother characterize her father’s health in her letter to Nadine?
(a) Unreliable.
(b) Improving.
(c) Fantastic.
(d) Terrible.

5. What quality does mistletoe have, according to Anne?
(a) Amorous.
(b) Divinatory.
(c) Reconciliatory.
(d) Prophetic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Nadine’s parents ask her to do, in their letter?

2. Where was Ka born and raised?

3. What sentence was passed on Constant when he was tried in Haiti in absentia?

4. How old was Ka when she started studying art?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Eric’s relationship with his roommates like?

2. What emergency is Nadine called in to resolve in Ms. Hinds’ room?

3. What does Eric mean to Nadine now?

4. What is the significance of Ka’s name?

5. What causes Nadine to call her parents?

6. In how many ways does the number seven resonate for Eric at the start of the second chapter, titled “Seven”?

7. How does Ka’s mother answer when Ka asks her how she can love him?

8. How did Eric and his wife twist the carnival tradition related to married people?

9. What does Eric’s wife do while he is at work?

10. What unlikely story is the main character of the "The Book of Miracles" chapter trying to get her family to believe?

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