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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, pages 134-150 and Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does cholera infect the community?
(a) It was brought ashore by someone who arrived on a ship
(b) It was brought in by someone who had traveled to France
(c) It was brought in by a merchant returning from China
(d) No one knows

2. What group seems to be immune from the disease sweeping the region?
(a) The whites
(b) The blacks
(c) The mulattos
(d) No one

3. What does the young girl say is wrong with Mama Wewe?
(a) She's grieving for Francisco
(b) She's been poisoned
(c) She won't eat
(d) She's had a heart attack

4. What is the prevalent smell during March at the home of Joaquim's family?
(a) Roses
(b) Tobacco
(c) Molasses
(d) Jasmine

5. What does Francisco see on the after he's wakened from his siesta?
(a) Naked men working
(b) Young men practicing marksmanship
(c) Children playing a game with reeds
(d) Yovogan gathering reeds

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one family member say a cowrie shell was used for in the United States?

2. What color are the walls of the Coutinhos' plantation?

3. What is the fate of the man who tends the family's cattle?

4. What does Joaquim say his mother did following her husband's death?

5. What color was Father Olimpio de Silva's cassock?

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