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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 is the narrator waiting for at the end of Between the Pool and the Gardenias?

2. What is the narrator’s mother principally concerned with?

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

4. What is the narrator’s relationship, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias, with the women in the earlier stories?

5. Why does the narrator say that certain women destroy at night the work they do in the day?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Raymond get his limp?

2. What does the woman plan to tell her son if he wakes up and sees her with a man?

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

4. How is Seeing Things Simply framed?

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

6. What is the woman’s relationship with the character in the earlier stories?

7. What is the difference between night and day in Night Women?

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

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

10. Where does Catherine go when she is gone for a week?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What values does she hold dear? What are her hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think she is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

Essay Topic 2

Identify the most important plot points in Krik? Krak!. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

Essay Topic 3

What is the role of writing in Krik? Krak!? Who is responsible for story telling, and what kind of stories do they tell? What kind of stories are required, and what does the work of storytelling involve a person in? Using examples from the text, describe the importance of storytelling in Edwidge Danticat’s book of stories.

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