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

2. Whose name does Lamort say she wants to use, now?
(a) Emilie’s mother’s.
(b) Her mother’s.
(c) Emilie’s.
(d) Her grandmother’s.

3. What does Guy demonstrate to Lili?
(a) How he could get a job at the mill.
(b) How the fence could be climbed.
(c) How the balloon flies.
(d) How he could steal the balloon.

4. What form does New York Day Women take?
(a) Aphorisms.
(b) Narrative.
(c) Stream-of-consciousness.
(d) Dialogue.

5. Why does the girl say she does not leave the house?
(a) Because there is too much violence in the streets.
(b) Because the macoutes are always watching.
(c) Because she cannot go anywhere.
(d) Because none of the shops are open anyway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did people watch at the sugar mill?

2. In what way is the ocean like the boy’s love for the girl?

3. How old is Princesse in Seeing Things Simply?

4. Where is Catherine from?

5. Who comes to the narrator on Tuesdays and Saturdays?

(see the answer key)

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