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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 Princesse feel about her body?
(a) Delighted.
(b) Unimpressed.
(c) Vein.
(d) Ashamed.

2. Why doesn’t the narrator’s mother go to parent-teacher meetings?
(a) She doesn’t speak English very well.
(b) She doesn’t feel like she is really raising her daughter.
(c) She doesn’t want to fight with the teachers.
(d) She doesn’t want her daughter to be ashamed.

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

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

5. What was the prison used for before it was a prison?
(a) A country house.
(b) A slave auction house.
(c) An American fort.
(d) A castle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the girl told to throw away?

2. What does Emilie give to Lamort, for posterity?

3. What is the girl’s last hope, in the story?

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

5. Where does the narrator of New York Day Women see her mother?

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