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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 form does New York Day Women take?
(a) Narrative.
(b) Dialogue.
(c) Aphorisms.
(d) Stream-of-consciousness.

2. What does the daughter do with the clothing her mother buys her?
(a) Throws it away.
(b) Sells it.
(c) Wears it.
(d) Donates it.

3. Why does the narrator say that certain women destroy at night the work they do in the day?
(a) As a way to bring men back to them.
(b) So they will always have work to do.
(c) As a way of distracting themselves.
(d) So that they will keep their hands busy.

4. What does Catherine say is the most important part of a face?
(a) The eyes.
(b) The nose.
(c) The mouth.
(d) The eyebrows.

5. How did Raymond get his limp?
(a) He was born with it.
(b) He was beaten by soldiers.
(c) He was shot accidentally.
(d) He was shot in battle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the narrator’s bed and her son’s separated?

2. What happened to Lamort’s mother?

3. What is the narrator’s job, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias?

4. How does Emilie say she became a woman last night?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Seeing Things Simply framed?

2. What is the relationship between art and cock fighting in The Missing Peace?

3. What is the girl’s relationship with Raymond?

4. What happens at night at the burial ground?

5. What are Princesse’s feelings about modeling nude?

6. What kind of people typically stay in the Lamort’s grandmother’s hotel?

7. What significance does the girl’s name have, in The Missing Peace?

8. How does the woman know when her son is asleep?

9. What gift does Emilie make to Lamort?

10. What does Catherine say about the project of capturing the human form in art?

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