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

2. What happens to even miscarried children in Ville Rose, according to the narrator?
(a) All the pieces are buried.
(b) They are hidden from anyone.
(c) All the pieces are dried out and kept.
(d) They are ritually burned.

3. Who told Emilie that her mother might be in Ville Rose?
(a) Her sense of intuition.
(b) Her mother’s letters.
(c) Her mother’s colleagues.
(d) Her network of informers.

4. What promise does Catherine make to Princesse?
(a) Never to let anyone see her paintings of her.
(b) Not to let anyone in Haiti see her paintings of her.
(c) To sell the paintings for good money in Paris.
(d) To share the money she gets for the paintings.

5. What makes the narrator wary of the baby?
(a) She might be a trap.
(b) She might need a lot of care.
(c) She might be a bomb.
(d) She might be a curse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the son do to make Guy angry?

2. How does the second narrator characterize her feeling in the first narrator’s absence?

3. Where is Catherine from?

4. What does Lamort take to the guest at her grandmother’s house?

5. Whose name is no one mentioning, according to the girl?

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