View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 & 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the girl narrator see this miracle as a sign of?
(a) Her mother’s death.
(b) Her imminent freedom.
(c) Her looming death.
(d) Her mother’s release.

2. What is the girl’s last hope, in the story?
(a) That there will be revenge for the soldiers who massacred Haitians.
(b) That the river will rise against the Dominican Republic.
(c) That a massacre will never happen again.
(d) That her mother’s flight will be joyful.

3. What happens when the narrator takes the baby with her to the market?
(a) People want to know who the father is.
(b) No one notices.
(c) People accuse her of stealing the baby.
(d) People accuse her of killing the baby.

4. In the song, the lyric says that the singer had to leave Haiti before what happened?
(a) The old president returned.
(b) He or she understood it.
(c) He or she was killed.
(d) The country exploded.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator of Night Women tell her son when he asks about the angels?

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

3. What does the narrator of Night Women wear to tempt her suitors?

4. What does Raymond invite Lamort to see from the pile of dirt?

5. Why is the girl’s mother in prison?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 345 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample