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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 girl narrator see this miracle as a sign of?
(a) Her imminent freedom.
(b) Her mother’s death.
(c) Her looming death.
(d) Her mother’s release.

2. What is Catherine’s demeanor toward Princesse?
(a) Patient.
(b) Commanding.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Brusque.

3. What does the girl take to her mother?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) Food.
(d) Paper.

4. How old is the narrator in Night Women?
(a) 14
(b) 12.
(c) 25.
(d) 18.

5. What does her mother answer?
(a) She says that she will be home soon.
(b) She says that it is important that the daughters remember their mothers.
(c) She says that all the women who went to the river can fly.
(d) She says that no human being can fly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Princesse make her drawing at the end of Seeing Things Simply?

2. What does the narrator say the baby smelled like?

3. How does the narrator characterize the old man?

4. For how many generations has the statue of the Madonna been in the girl’s family before her?

5. Where does the girl visit her mother?

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