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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 much weight has Anne’s husband lost since moving to the U.S.?
(a) 40 pounds.
(b) 20 pounds.
(c) 80 pounds.
(d) 60 pounds.

2. How tall is the sculpture Ka made of her father?
(a) One foot.
(b) Twelve feet.
(c) Three feet.
(d) Six feet.

3. What is a ka, in The Book of the Dead?
(a) An altar for offering prayers.
(b) A sacrificial offering.
(c) A double of the body.
(d) An angel who weighs the soul.

4. In the Carnival tradition, who is a married couple supposed to find, to ask the person to marry them?
(a) The most stone-faced person they could find.
(b) The most musical person they could find.
(c) The drunkest person they could find.
(d) The most sacred person they could find.

5. How does Eric’s wife keep her possessions from being nabbed by her relatives before she leaves?
(a) Locks them up.
(b) Gives them away.
(c) Hides them.
(d) Gift wraps them.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Ka’s father explain why he had to destroy the sculpture of himself?

4. What is the theme Ka identifies in her mother’s stories of miracles?

5. What was Anne’s family’s Christmas tradition?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the sculpture Ka is selling to Gabrielle Fontaneau?

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

3. Why are the 60 seconds at midnight during the Christmas mass Anne’s favorite minute of the year?

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

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

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

7. What causes Nadine to call her parents?

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

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

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

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