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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 baby in Between the Pool and the Gardenias make the narrator think about?
(a) The babies she had given away.
(b) A friend who could not keep her baby.
(c) The pregnancies she could not keep.
(d) The baby she had aborted.

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

3. How would you characterize the narrator’s tone toward her mother, in New York Day Women?
(a) Bemused.
(b) Delighted.
(c) Confused.
(d) Appalled.

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

5. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?
(a) All Haitians.
(b) All foreign women.
(c) All Americans.
(d) All immigrants.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Madame and Monsieur say is holding Haiti back?

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

4. What is the girl’s last hope, in the story?

5. Where is Catherine from?

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