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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 were the women yelling prior to the beginning of the feast?
(a) Save the goat!
(b) It is night!
(c) Rest in Peace!
(d) Return to earth!

2. How does Francisco and Joaquim spend much of their time?
(a) Waving at Joaquim's sisters
(b) All the above
(c) Fighting gamecocks
(d) Training hounds

3. What had Francisco de Silva provided to the king of Dahomy?
(a) Rum, tobacco and guns
(b) Slaves, guns and fine material
(c) Rum, whiskey and brandy
(d) Fine material, tobacco and precious gems

4. Where does the family head after the memorial event?
(a) A Portuguese restaurant
(b) The Portuguese Fort
(c) A Portuguese sail boat
(d) The Portuguese Chapel

5. Why does Mama Wewe kiss Cesario while he's dying of cholera?
(a) She is telling him good-bye
(b) She wants to take the disease from him
(c) She hopes that it will comfort him
(d) She knows he's going to die and she wants to die as well

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Francisco de Silva's Brazilian name?

2. What color was the limewash Modeste and Pierre used to paint?

3. Who wins the game between the professor and Mama Wewe's brother, Antonio?

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

5. What does Manuelzinho do for a living?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the relationship between Rosemary da Silva and her husband, Ernest?

2. Describe the scene in which a photographer is about to take a family portrait.

3. What does Francisco believe will be the result of the hard work he's putting in to make the business profitable?

4. How is Mama Wewe related to the Da Silva family?

5. What is Francisco's life like after he leaves the priest?

6. What happens after Dr. Ferraez catches yellow fever?

7. What is Francisco's life like after he's left with the priest?

8. What is the fate of Dona Luciana?

9. What is the effect of Francisco's insistence that he deal fairly with everyone?

10. Why is Candido da Silva chosen to be the head of the family and what's his fate?

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