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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are the shutters on Francisco's childhood home?

2. What month was the memorial event held?

3. Why does Mama Wewe choose azure cloth to wrap Cesario's body?

4. How many days pass during which the professor could not come to shore because of bad weather?

5. How did Tupuitapera get its name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the fate of Dona Luciana?

2. What does Jacinto do to ingratiate himself with the king and what is the result?

3. What does Francisco recall about his life with his mother after the arrival of Manuelzinho?

4. What is the effect of the drought on the animals?

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

6. What kinds of businesses does Joaquim have and how does he become a baron?

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

8. Where do the most valuable slaves originate and why is it a problem?

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

10. What are some of the theories of what happened to Francisco's money?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Francisco is arrested on more than one occasion while in Ouidah. Describe how and why he is arrested. What is the result of these arrests?

Essay Topic 2

How does Francisco come to be involved in the slave trade? What is it that forces his partners out of the trade?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the deaths of Francisco and Dona Luciana. What do the two mean to each other? Why does their relationship develop? What is the result of that relationship?

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