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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the literary term for the brief scene at the end of Seeing Things Simply?
(a) Refrain.
(b) Repetition.
(c) Cliffhanger.
(d) Foreshadowing.

2. What is the girl’s last hope, in the story?
(a) That there will be revenge for the soldiers who massacred Haitians.
(b) That a massacre will never happen again.
(c) That the river will rise against the Dominican Republic.
(d) That her mother’s flight will be joyful.

3. What is Guy and Lili’s son called at school, on account of his hair?
(a) Curly.
(b) Medusa.
(c) Pepper head.
(d) Shiny.

4. What flaw does the narrator say he has?
(a) He cannot imagine the future.
(b) His imagination is frail.
(c) He imagines his death too easily.
(d) He imagines too much.

5. What does the narrator say her customer calls her, when she satisfies him?
(a) A palace.
(b) A river.
(c) An ocean.
(d) An avalanche.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose name does Lamort say she wants to use, now?

2. What is the dinner table made of, in Guy and Lili’s house?

3. What does the daughter do with the clothing her mother buys her?

4. Who told Emilie that her mother might be in Ville Rose?

5. Where does the narrator of New York Day Women see her mother?

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