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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 does he get instead?
(a) Indifference.
(b) News.
(c) Food.
(d) Respect.

2. What is the girl’s mother’s connection with the Massacre River?
(a) Her mother was killed there.
(b) She was raped there.
(c) She was conceived there.
(d) She was born there.

3. What color would the women wear, when they visited the Massacre River?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Green.

4. How does the narrator characterize the boy’s voice when he recites his lines over his father’s dead body?
(a) A man’s grieving roar.
(b) An old man’s rasp.
(c) A woman’s tender lament.
(d) A child’s little whimper.

5. 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 its skin tears without bleeding.
(d) When it begins to turn black.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator’s job, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias?

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

3. When do day women come out?

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

5. What does the baby in Between the Pool and the Gardenias make the narrator think about?

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