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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the guards make the women dash themselves with cold water at night?
(a) To keep them clean.
(b) To keep them from sleeping well.
(c) To humiliate them.
(d) To keep wings from growing from their shoulders.

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

3. How does the girl’s mother’s health change the next time she sees her?
(a) She has a cough.
(b) She has a severe pain.
(c) She has a festering wound.
(d) She has lost her sight.

4. What does the narrator say her customer calls her, when she satisfies him?
(a) An avalanche.
(b) A river.
(c) A palace.
(d) An ocean.

5. What miracle does Nineteen Thirty-Seven start with?
(a) A crying madonna.
(b) A man brought back to life.
(c) The face of Jesus.
(d) A healing scar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to the narrator on Tuesdays and Saturdays?

2. What was the prison used for before it was a prison?

3. Where are the cock fights taking place?

4. What is the narrator’s relationship with the groundskeeper?

5. What would the narrator of Night Women like her son to forget about the place where they live?

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