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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 Catherine’s demeanor toward Princesse?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Patient.
(c) Brusque.
(d) Commanding.

2. How long does the girl’s mother make her food last, in prison?
(a) Months.
(b) Days.
(c) Weeks.
(d) Hours.

3. What regime does Lamort say she supports?
(a) The ancient regime.
(b) God’s regime.
(c) The old regime.
(d) The new regime.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girl do when the mother takes the statue of the madonna from her?

2. What is the narrator’s relationship, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias, with the women in the earlier stories?

3. What happens when Emilie shows Lamort a photo of her (Emilie’s) mother?

4. What terrifies Lili?

5. How does the girl know the person who tells her that her mother has died?

(see the answer key)

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