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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. When does Eric’s wife finally feel that she is in another country?
(a) When the doors open out from Customs.
(b) When her husband lifts her up in an embrace, then puts her back on the ground.
(c) When she sees the land underneath the plane as it descends.
(d) When her plane touches down.

2. Where was Ka born and raised?
(a) Léogâne, Haiti.
(b) Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Brooklyn.

3. Where have Anne and her husband gone to get Ka for this Christmas mass?
(a) Ulster county.
(b) Rockland county.
(c) Jersey City.
(d) Westchester county.

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

5. 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) Take his hand.
(c) Look for someone in a crowd.
(d) Check her phone.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Anne go up to the man her daughter thought was Emmanuel Constant?

2. Where is Eric meeting his wife?

3. What is Nadine’s reputation on the ward where she works?

4. What is the miracle Anne is trying to tell Ka about?

5. Why is Ms. Hinds upset, when Nadine is called to her room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the occasion that Eric’s wife coming to New York?

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

3. How does the narrator characterize Anne’s religiosity?

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

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

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

7. What does Eric mean to Nadine now?

8. How do Ka and her father explain to Mrs. Fontaneau that the sculpture is gone?

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

10. How do Ka and her family react to the possibility that a wanted Haitian criminal might be in the church?

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