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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 do members of the family listen to the presidential speech that evening?
(a) On the radio
(b) On the television
(c) They go to the presidential palace
(d) It's broadcast from vehicles traveling the streets

2. How hold is Francisco when his father dies?
(a) Twenty-one years old
(b) Eleven years old
(c) One month old
(d) One year old

3. How did Mama Benz make the trip from the memorial event?
(a) By boat
(b) By foot
(c) By carriage
(d) In a Mercedes

4. What color was the limewash Modeste and Pierre used to paint?
(a) White
(b) Orange
(c) Apricot
(d) Violet

5. What does Mama Wewe learn about money earned by the daughters of a Missionary?
(a) Their father uses the money to buy drink
(b) Their family needs the money in order to eat
(c) They buy lipstick and perfume with the money
(d) They give the money to the church

Short Answer Questions

1. What deformity does Manuelzinho have?

2. What is on Papa Agostinho's hat?

3. What month was the memorial event held?

4. What is Francisco's wife carrying when he meets her for the first time?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the new king's attitude toward killing?

2. Why do some people believe Mama Wewe is into black magic and what do they do to try to protect themselves?

3. What plan is concocted to get the twins and their stepmother out of Ouidah and what happens to that plan?

4. What is Francisco's relationship with Joaquim?

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

6. How does Francisco's father die?

7. What demand is made by Lieutenant-Colonel Zossoungbo Patrice and how does the family appease this demand?

8. How does Cesario come to be adopted by Mama Wewe?

9. Describe Francisco's physical state just before his death.

10. Why do you believe the family so often turns their conversation to the subject of Francisco's money?

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