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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the girl visit her mother?
(a) At her parents’ house.
(b) At the cemetery.
(c) In prison.
(d) At home.

2. What does the girl say when she finally talks to her mother?
(a) She tells her mother she loves her.
(b) She asks when she will be home.
(c) She asks why she took her to Massacre River.
(d) She asks whether her mother flew.

3. How old is Princesse in Seeing Things Simply?
(a) 12.
(b) 18.
(c) 16.
(d) 21.

4. What is the girl’s last hope, in the story?
(a) That her mother’s flight will be joyful.
(b) That the river will rise against the Dominican Republic.
(c) That a massacre will never happen again.
(d) That there will be revenge for the soldiers who massacred Haitians.

5. Why is the girl’s mother in prison?
(a) She was accused of stealing a baby.
(b) She was accused of adultery.
(c) She was accused of stealing food.
(d) She was accused of bewitching a dead boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girl take to her mother?

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

3. What does the girl narrator see this miracle as a sign of?

4. How does the reader learn that the baby the narrator has found is dead?

5. What story will the woman tell her son if he wakes up while she is with a customer?

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