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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 & 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator’s job, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias?
(a) Housekeeper.
(b) Nanny.
(c) Cook.
(d) Groundskeeper.

2. What is the dinner table made of, in Guy and Lili’s house?
(a) Shipping crates.
(b) Mahogany.
(c) Plywood and bricks.
(d) Laps—there is no table.

3. What does the girl say when she finally talks to her mother?
(a) She asks when she will be home.
(b) She asks whether her mother flew.
(c) She tells her mother she loves her.
(d) She asks why she took her to Massacre River.

4. In the narrator’s account, who likely wrote the lines the boy is to say?
(a) A Haitian slave owner.
(b) Boukman himself.
(c) A Haitian historian.
(d) A sentimental European.

5. What does the narrator of Night Women tell her son when he asks about the angels?
(a) That he will see them soon enough.
(b) That he has all his life to see angels.
(c) That he will never see them when he is looking.
(d) That he will wish he had not seen them, when he does.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator of Night Women wear to tempt her suitors?

3. Where do Guy and Lili and their boy get their water from?

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

5. What does Guy promise never to do?

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