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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do day women come out?
(a) When they have their liberty.
(b) When the night’s work is done.
(c) When their children need them.
(d) When no one expects them.

2. What objection does Lamort’s grandmother make to the hibiscus she has brought home?
(a) They grow in the cemetery.
(b) They grow with blood on them.
(c) They refuse to show mourning for the dead.
(d) They grow from the bones of the dead.

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

4. How did Raymond get his limp?
(a) He was beaten by soldiers.
(b) He was shot in battle.
(c) He was shot accidentally.
(d) He was born with it.

5. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?
(a) All foreign women.
(b) All Haitians.
(c) All Americans.
(d) All immigrants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girl say her father regrets?

2. What is the narrator’s mother principally concerned with?

3. What miracle does Nineteen Thirty-Seven start with?

4. Who does the girl say is her most trusted friend at Ville Rose?

5. Where does the girl visit her mother?

(see the answer key)

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