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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 kind of people typically stay at Lamort’s grandmother’s house?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Artists.
(c) Government officials.
(d) Journalists.

2. In the narrator’s account, who likely wrote the lines the boy is to say?
(a) Boukman himself.
(b) A Haitian slave owner.
(c) A sentimental European.
(d) A Haitian historian.

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

4. What is the narrator’s relationship, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias, with the women in the earlier stories?
(a) They have all worked for the same Madame.
(b) They come from the town she came from.
(c) They are all Dominican like her.
(d) They are her ancestors.

5. What does Raymond offer Lamort?
(a) To make her feel like a woman.
(b) To pay her for sex.
(c) To take her away from here.
(d) To marry her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one of the mothers come home with, when she visits the prison where the ‘radio six’ are kept?

2. What does the girl say is the biggest weapon the government can use against the people?

3. What does Lili want to know is in Guy’s dreams?

4. What is Lamort playing with at the beginning of The Missing Peace?

5. What is remarkable about Catherine’s sunbathing?

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