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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator of Night Women tell her son when he asks about the angels?
(a) That he will never see them when he is looking.
(b) That he will wish he had not seen them, when he does.
(c) That he has all his life to see angels.
(d) That he will see them soon enough.

2. What does Princesse feel about her body?
(a) Unimpressed.
(b) Ashamed.
(c) Delighted.
(d) Vein.

3. What is the narrator’s relationship, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias, with the women in the earlier stories?
(a) They are her ancestors.
(b) They are all Dominican like her.
(c) They have all worked for the same Madame.
(d) They come from the town she came from.

4. Where does Princesse make her drawing at the end of Seeing Things Simply?
(a) In the water.
(b) In the dust.
(c) On paper.
(d) In the air.

5. What does Raymond offer Lamort?
(a) To marry her.
(b) To make her feel like a woman.
(c) To take her away from here.
(d) To pay her for sex.

6. Whose name does Lamort say she wants to use, now?
(a) Emilie’s.
(b) Her mother’s.
(c) Emilie’s mother’s.
(d) Her grandmother’s.

7. What does Emilie give to Lamort, for posterity?
(a) Her mother’s pieces of cloth.
(b) Her mother’s letters.
(c) Her mother’s photograph.
(d) Her mother’s name.

8. In what situation does Catherine hope to paint Princesse one day?
(a) While she is sleeping.
(b) In the palace.
(c) On the beach.
(d) In the city.

9. What is Princesse’s involvement with the cock fight?
(a) She is walking past it.
(b) She is collecting someone from it.
(c) She is betting on it.
(d) She is watching it.

10. What makes the narrator wary of the baby?
(a) She might be a curse.
(b) She might be a bomb.
(c) She might be a trap.
(d) She might need a lot of care.

11. What is the narrator’s relationship with the groundskeeper?
(a) They are regular lovers.
(b) They have not had much to do with each other.
(c) They slept together once.
(d) They are married.

12. What is the narrator’s job, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias?
(a) Cook.
(b) Groundskeeper.
(c) Nanny.
(d) Housekeeper.

13. What did Emilie’s mother do before she was killed?
(a) Play music and sing.
(b) Journalism.
(c) Painting.
(d) Raise children.

14. What do Madame and Monsieur say is holding Haiti back?
(a) America.
(b) Voodoo.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Racism.

15. What has Emilie brought pieces of cloth to Ville Rose for?
(a) She is going to make a funeral veil for her mother.
(b) She is going to pay Lamort with them, for taking her to her mother’s body.
(c) She is going to bury them with her mother’s body.
(d) She is going to sew them into a purple blanket.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to even miscarried children in Ville Rose, according to the narrator?

2. Why does the old man tell Princesse he is lucky?

3. What condition does Lamort impose on Raymond’s request to touch her breasts?

4. What does Lamort tell Emilie when Emilie asks whether there were any women’s bodies found after the coup?

5. What is Lamort playing with at the beginning of The Missing Peace?

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