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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lamort’s grandmother say posterity is?
(a) Growing up.
(b) Remembering.
(c) Telling stories.
(d) Saving pictures.

2. What do the prison guards suspect the girl’s mother of being?
(a) A terrorist.
(b) A spy.
(c) A witch.
(d) A provocateur.

3. What condition does Lamort impose on Raymond’s request to touch her breasts?
(a) He has to tell her a story.
(b) He has to give her money.
(c) He has to get her out of this town.
(d) He has to tell her a secret.

4. How would you characterize the narrator’s tone toward her mother, in New York Day Women?
(a) Appalled.
(b) Confused.
(c) Bemused.
(d) Delighted.

5. Why does the narrator’s roof still have holes in it?
(a) She can never make enough to fix them.
(b) Her suitors like to watch the stars through them.
(c) She does likes that the holes let the cooking smoke out.
(d) Her suitors are not men who know how to fix roofs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the girl’s mother in prison?

2. Who had Trujillo massacred in the Dominican Republic?

3. How old is Princesse in Seeing Things Simply?

4. What has the girl’s manman buried behind the house?

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

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