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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 is the narrator’s relationship with the groundskeeper?
(a) They are regular lovers.
(b) They have not had much to do with each other.
(c) They are married.
(d) They slept together once.

2. Where does the narrator of New York Day Women work?
(a) Advertising.
(b) Fashion design.
(c) The law.
(d) Import/export.

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

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

5. What does the girl’s mother hope for the girl?
(a) That she will have someone to care for her.
(b) That she will get out of the country.
(c) That she will get revenge for her sake.
(d) That she will return to the Massacre River.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is the narrator in Night Women?

3. Why do the guards make the women dash themselves with cold water at night?

4. Why does the narrator’s roof still have holes in it?

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

(see the answer key)

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