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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 Lamort’s grandmother say will affect how people treat you?
(a) Who your people are.
(b) Where you come from.
(c) What you wear.
(d) What you do and say.

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

3. What does the girl say is the biggest weapon the government can use against the people?
(a) Rape.
(b) Hope.
(c) Indefinite detentions.
(d) Propaganda.

4. What prevents the girl’s family from leaving the city?
(a) Militia in the streets.
(b) Their car is broken.
(c) Gasoline ban.
(d) Their car is destroyed.

5. What does Guy ask for when he comes home?
(a) Food.
(b) Attention.
(c) Respect.
(d) Peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girl narrator see this miracle as a sign of?

2. What is the narrator’s job, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias?

3. Where does the girl visit her mother?

4. What kind of people typically stay at Lamort’s grandmother’s house?

5. What happens when the narrator takes the baby with her to the market?

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