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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 is the title of Part Three: Chapter VI?
(a) Santiago de Cuba
(b) The Reckoning
(c) Dagon Inside the Ark
(d) Ultima Ratio Regum

2. For how many years does the narrator say every person in the North has been enslaved to build the fortress in Part Three: Chapter III?
(a) 12
(b) 1
(c) 4
(d) 7

3. What is all that’s left of the chapel at the plantation Ti Noël visits in Part Three: Chapter II?
(a) The weather vane
(b) The confessional
(c) The pulpit
(d) The sacrificial altar

4. Who is described as the Lord of the Roads in Part Three: Chapter I?
(a) Amethyste
(b) Bouckman
(c) Legba
(d) Athenais

5. M. Lenormand de Mézy spends his time doing what in Cuba in Part Two: Chapter V?
(a) Investing in the stock market
(b) Drinking and practicing Voodoo
(c) Gambling and going to church
(d) Frequenting brothels and libraries

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter VII, the released prisoners talk of beheading the queen, as who was beheaded in the French Revolution?

2. At what time does Ti Noël lay down his last brick at the end of his first day with the workers in Part Three: Chapter III?

3. What is Part Three: Chapter VII’s title?

4. Who is playing the piano in the beginning of Part Four: Chapter I?

5. What is the title of Part Two: Chapter V?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the slavery under King Henri Christophe described in Part Three: Chapter III?

2. Where does Pauline Bonaparte go after the plague begins spreading in Part Two: Chapter VII? Who goes with her?

3. Where does Ti Noël escape to in Part Three: Chapter IV? Why does he return to the Cap?

4. What leads to Pauline Bonaparte’s experimentation with Voodoo in Part Two: Chapter VII?

5. What supernatural occurrence is described in Part Three: Chapter V?

6. Where does Pauline go after her husband’s death in Part Two: Chapter VII? What happens to her sense of superstition?

7. What great fortress is described in Part Three: Chapter III? How is the reference to bulls in the title of the chapter associated with this setting?

8. What happens to King Henri Christophe’s body in Part Three: Chapter VII?

9. What causes King Henri Christophe’s suicide in Part Three: Chapter VI?

10. How is the palace described in Part Three: Chapter II? How does Ti Noël find himself there?

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