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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the reader learn that the baby the narrator has found is dead?
(a) When it begins to attract flies.
(b) When it the groundskeeper finds it.
(c) When it begins to turn black.
(d) When its skin tears without bleeding.

2. What does the narrator say she could give to the baby she finds?
(a) The clothes she made for her own babies.
(b) The love her husband no longer wanted.
(c) The blankets she had been crocheting.
(d) The money she had saved.

3. What likely happened to the boy’s boat?
(a) It was captured by Haitian sailors.
(b) It was destroyed in a storm.
(c) It arrived safely.
(d) It sank.

4. Where does the girl visit her mother?
(a) At the cemetery.
(b) In prison.
(c) At her parents’ house.
(d) At home.

5. What is Princesse’s involvement with the cock fight?
(a) She is walking past it.
(b) She is collecting someone from it.
(c) She is betting on it.
(d) She is watching it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the narrator takes the baby with her to the market?

2. What is Lamort playing with at the beginning of The Missing Peace?

3. Why does the old man tell Princesse he is lucky?

4. What did people watch at the sugar mill?

5. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?

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