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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 the narrator of Night Women tell her son when he asks about the angels?
(a) That he will wish he had not seen them, when he does.
(b) That he has all his life to see angels.
(c) That he will see them soon enough.
(d) That he will never see them when he is looking.

2. Who are the Assads?
(a) Merchants near the sugar mill.
(b) Owners of the sugar mill.
(c) Mill workers.
(d) The foremen at the mill.

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

4. What danger does the boy’s boat face?
(a) Bad weather.
(b) Pirates.
(c) Leaks.
(d) Mutiny.

5. When was the Massacre River massacre?
(a) November, 1937.
(b) August, 1954.
(c) April, 1931.
(d) September, 1918.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Princesse feel about her body?

2. What was the prison used for before it was a prison?

3. What does the daughter do with the clothing her mother buys her?

4. What is Guy’s first response to the news that their son will be in a play?

5. Who is Boukman?

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