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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 & 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator of Between the Pool and the Gardenias compare the dead baby to?
(a) A rag.
(b) A sculpture.
(c) A doll.
(d) An icon.

2. What was the prison used for before it was a prison?
(a) A castle.
(b) An American fort.
(c) A slave auction house.
(d) A country house.

3. What does the narrator compare Guy’s admiration for the hot-air balloon to?
(a) Men’s admiration for powerful machinery.
(b) Men’s admiration for fast cars.
(c) Men’s admiration for young women.
(d) Men’s admiration for the trappings of power.

4. What is the dead baby next to when the narrator finds it?
(a) A sewer.
(b) A road.
(c) A house.
(d) A store.

5. How old are the narrators?
(a) About seventeen.
(b) About fourteen.
(c) About twenty-five.
(d) About nineteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Catherine from?

2. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?

3. What do the prison guards suspect the girl’s mother of being?

4. How old is the narrator in Night Women?

5. What does the narrator of Night Women tell her son when he asks about the angels?

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