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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 & Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Guy and Lili and their boy get their water from?
(a) The rain.
(b) The well.
(c) The faucet.
(d) The reservoir.

2. What does Emilie give to Lamort, for posterity?
(a) Her mother’s name.
(b) Her mother’s photograph.
(c) Her mother’s pieces of cloth.
(d) Her mother’s letters.

3. What would the narrator of Night Women like her son to forget about the place where they live?
(a) That they have nothing there.
(b) That they could be driven out at any minute.
(c) That nothing lasts there.
(d) That everything they had was taken.

4. How does the narrator characterize soldiers in Haiti?
(a) Decent.
(b) Vulgar.
(c) Machine-like.
(d) Inhuman.

5. How does the girl know the person who tells her that her mother has died?
(a) They play the questioning game.
(b) The person has a piece of her mother’s clothing.
(c) The person carries a letter from the mother.
(d) The person knows the password.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Raymond get his limp?

2. What explanation does the family give for Caroline’s deformed arm?

3. What is the narrator’s mother principally concerned with?

4. What color would the women wear, when they visited the Massacre River?

5. In what situation does Catherine hope to paint Princesse one day?

(see the answer key)

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