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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 are the cock fights taking place?
(a) On the beach.
(b) In the town.
(c) In a hut.
(d) Beneath a banyan tree.

2. What is the girl’s mother’s connection with the Massacre River?
(a) She was raped there.
(b) She was conceived there.
(c) She was born there.
(d) Her mother was killed there.

3. Why does the old man tell Princesse he is lucky?
(a) His wife left town for a day.
(b) He got someone to buy him alcohol.
(c) He gets to see her twice in a day.
(d) The rooster he bet on won.

4. Why do the guards make the women dash themselves with cold water at night?
(a) To humiliate them.
(b) To keep wings from growing from their shoulders.
(c) To keep them from sleeping well.
(d) To keep them clean.

5. What happens to even miscarried children in Ville Rose, according to the narrator?
(a) All the pieces are buried.
(b) All the pieces are dried out and kept.
(c) They are ritually burned.
(d) They are hidden from anyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Catherine say is the most important part of a face?

2. What is the narrator’s relationship with the groundskeeper?

3. What does the narrator say she could give to the baby she finds?

4. Why does the narrator say that certain women destroy at night the work they do in the day?

5. What is the literary term for the brief scene at the end of Seeing Things Simply?

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