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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name is given to the military group made up of women?
(a) The Vestial Virgins
(b) Francisco's Furious Fighters
(c) The King's Leopard Wives
(d) The Warring Women of Ouidah

2. Why does Francisco decide to build the house he calls "Simbodji?"
(a) He was so wealthy that living in the fort was an embarrassment
(b) He was asked to leave the fort for military housing
(c) His family had outgrown the fort
(d) He was homesick

3. Who buries Taparica?
(a) A group of mourners
(b) Francisco
(c) No one, his body is left to rot
(d) Jacinto

4. What information does Francisco share with Jacinto?
(a) Only the finances of the business
(b) Only the manufacturing side of the business
(c) Everything, including business secrets
(d) Only the trading aspects of the business

5. Where does Francisco live?
(a) Over the governor's suite
(b) Aboard the slave ship
(c) In the fort
(d) In a hotel

6. What is the souvenir Francisco provides to visiting French dignitaries?
(a) A tapestry with a mythical creature woven into it
(b) A silver toothpick shaped like a python
(c) A golden bowl shaped like a skull
(d) A toothpick holder shaped like a porcupine

7. What business does Jacinto start with the help of the king?
(a) Manufacturing of shoes
(b) Palm oil exporting
(c) Exporting pineapples
(d) Barrel manufacturing

8. What do the captives believe is to be their fate as soon as they see the slave ships?
(a) They'll be sold to plantations
(b) They'll be eaten
(c) They'll be sent to America
(d) They'll be forced to work in mines

9. Why did the Portuguese boat stop at Popos?
(a) They needed new water kegs
(b) They wanted to offer Francisco passage to Ouidah
(c) They had been in a storm and needed to repair the sail
(d) They had sick people and were in need of a doctor

10. Why are the slaves amazed to see Francisco work on the repairs to the fort?
(a) They weren't aware he would know how to work
(b) They were told whites weren't capable of the work
(c) They believe he's too lazy to work
(d) They aren't accustomed to whites working

11. What did the women of the military grop do to their teeth?
(a) Barred them when in battle
(b) Filed them to sharp points
(c) Brushed them several times daily
(d) Nothing

12. Which of the following are among the improvements Francisco makes after being named viceroy?
(a) He has drains dug in the town
(b) All the above
(c) He plants coconuts
(d) He introduces the pineapple

13. What solution does Francisco believe will put an end to his legal problems, allowing him to return to Brazil?
(a) A donation to charity
(b) A marriage between his family and that of a Brazilian family
(c) A bribe to the baron
(d) The birth of a child on Brazilian soil

14. What is used to make the rosaries that are the prized possession of Yovogan?
(a) Pearls
(b) Gold nuggets
(c) Human teeth
(d) Jaguar claws

15. What does Dona Luciana wear on a velvet ribbon?
(a) A locket with her dead husband's photo
(b) A lock of Francisco's hair
(c) A lock of her dead husband's hair
(d) A locket with her dead daughter's photo

Short Answer Questions

1. Which statement is true of Mr. George Lawson?

2. What do Kankpe and Francisco drink from after forming their blood pact?

3. What sound does Francisco hear from the home of the doctor's wife that makes him stop to listen?

4. Why did Francisco replace that first painting?

5. What happens to end Taparica's torture?

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