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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the first narrator of Children of the Sea?
(a) A father.
(b) A lover.
(c) A farmer.
(d) A sailor.

3. Why does Lamort say she cannot have sex with Raymond?
(a) Because he would not marry her.
(b) Because she might have a baby.
(c) Because she would be thrown out of her house.
(d) Because she would be killed.

4. What is the dinner table made of, in Guy and Lili’s house?
(a) Plywood and bricks.
(b) Shipping crates.
(c) Laps—there is no table.
(d) Mahogany.

5. What does Guy promise never to do?
(a) Take their son away in the hot-air balloon.
(b) Steal anything, and possibly end up in prison.
(c) Go to any protests against the government.
(d) Put their son’s name on the waiting list for a job at the mill.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What objection does Lamort’s grandmother make to the hibiscus she has brought home?

3. In what way does the boy surprise his father?

4. How old was the girl when her mother took her on a pilgrimage to the Massacre River?

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

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