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

2. Why does the narrator say that certain women destroy at night the work they do in the day?
(a) So that they will keep their hands busy.
(b) As a way of distracting themselves.
(c) As a way to bring men back to them.
(d) So they will always have work to do.

3. What was the prison used for before it was a prison?
(a) A castle.
(b) An American fort.
(c) A slave auction house.
(d) A country house.

4. What promise does Catherine make to Princesse?
(a) Never to let anyone see her paintings of her.
(b) Not to let anyone in Haiti see her paintings of her.
(c) To sell the paintings for good money in Paris.
(d) To share the money she gets for the paintings.

5. What form does New York Day Women take?
(a) Stream-of-consciousness.
(b) Dialogue.
(c) Narrative.
(d) Aphorisms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the old man like, who is watching the cock fight?

2. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?

3. What does the daughter do with the clothing her mother buys her?

4. How would you characterize the narrator’s tone toward her mother, in New York Day Women?

5. What does the baby in Between the Pool and the Gardenias make the narrator think about?

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