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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) So they will always have work to do.
(d) As a way to bring men back to them.

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

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

4. What secret does the girl’s mother reveal to her?
(a) How she became pregnant with her.
(b) How to make the Madonna cry.
(c) How she escaped from the Dominican Republic.
(d) How to make a bone soup.

5. Where does Princesse make her drawing at the end of Seeing Things Simply?
(a) In the water.
(b) On paper.
(c) In the dust.
(d) In the air.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells the girl that her mother has died?

2. In what situation does Catherine hope to paint Princesse one day?

3. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?

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

5. What form does New York Day Women take?

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