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

2. Where is Eric meeting his wife?
(a) LaGuardia airport.
(b) Port Authority.
(c) JFK airport.
(d) Grand Central.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Dany and Michel purchase, to make Eric’s wife more at home?

3. How did Anne’s younger brother die?

4. How did Ka get in touch with Gabrielle Fonteneau, to sell her the sculpture?

5. What aspect of the maid’s personality reminds Ka of her mother?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What causes Nadine to call her parents?

5. What is Ka’s father’s objection to the sculpture?

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

7. How does Nadine’s call with her parents go?

8. Whose perspective is the "The Book of Miracles" chapter written from, and when is it set?

9. What is Nadine’s relationship with her co-workers like?

10. What is Anne’s family’s Christmas routine like?

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