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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 has Eric’s wife brought to the U.S. that does not make it through customs?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Books.
(c) Toiletries.
(d) Fruit.

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

3. What does the next letter Nadine receives from her parents have to report?
(a) Her mother has slipped and fallen.
(b) Her mother is learning to drive.
(c) Her father is coming to visit.
(d) Her father has prostate cancer.

4. What procedure has Ms. Hinds had performed in the hospital?
(a) Lumpectomy.
(b) Hysterectomy.
(c) Laryngectomy.
(d) Cataract surgery.

5. What is the importance of the date of the final scene in the chapter "Water Child"?
(a) It is the day Nadine is going to call her family.
(b) It is the day Eric had promised to be with Nadine.
(c) It is the day Nadine's baby would have been born.
(d) It is the day Eric’s wife arrives.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Eric, the main character of the "Seven" chapter?

2. What does the narrator say Eric’s wife smells like?

3. What does Anne do when the car her family is in passes the cemetery?

4. When does Eric’s wife finally feel that she is in another country?

5. How does Eric look at his wife on the bus ride back home?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What causes Nadine to call her parents?

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

4. What does Eric mean to Nadine now?

5. How have Anne and her husband camouflaged their old life in Haiti, now that they are in New York?

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

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

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

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

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

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