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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 has the girl’s manman buried behind the house?
(a) Money.
(b) Political buttons.
(c) Valuables.
(d) A baby.

2. What does Catherine have to do to get Princesse to remove her underwear before she poses for her?
(a) Promise her money.
(b) threaten her.
(c) Turn around.
(d) Plead.

3. What did people watch at the sugar mill?
(a) Government-sponsored TV.
(b) Cock fights.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Dog fights.

4. What does the girl do when the mother takes the statue of the madonna from her?
(a) She begins to sing.
(b) She begins to hyperventilate.
(c) She begins to pray.
(d) She bursts into tears.

5. What does the girl take to her mother?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Paper.
(d) Food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the prison guards suspect the girl’s mother of being?

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

3. What is the narrator waiting for at the end of Between the Pool and the Gardenias?

4. What is the dead baby next to when the narrator finds it?

5. How does the second narrator characterize her feeling in the first narrator’s absence?

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