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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 Guy’s hairline supposed to indicate about him?
(a) That he will be wealthy.
(b) That his life will be troubled.
(c) That he is not indigenous.
(d) That he is lucky.

2. How does the narrator characterize the boy’s voice when he recites his lines over his father’s dead body?
(a) A man’s grieving roar.
(b) An old man’s rasp.
(c) A child’s little whimper.
(d) A woman’s tender lament.

3. What is the narrator waiting for at the end of Between the Pool and the Gardenias?
(a) Death.
(b) The law.
(c) Her family.
(d) Justice.

4. Whose baby does the girl give birth to on the boat?
(a) Her father’s.
(b) Her husband’s.
(c) Haitian soldiers’.
(d) Her brother’s.

5. What does the narrator say the baby smelled like?
(a) Madame’s perfumes.
(b) The department stores.
(c) Madame’s cooking.
(d) The house she grew up in.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Guy and Lili and their boy eat when things were tight?

2. What is Guy and Lili’s son called at school, on account of his hair?

3. What does Guy demonstrate to Lili?

4. What does Guy ask for when he comes home?

5. Who are the Assads?

(see the answer key)

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