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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 the narrator say the baby smelled like?
(a) The department stores.
(b) Madame’s perfumes.
(c) Madame’s cooking.
(d) The house she grew up in.

2. What does Lili want to know is in Guy’s dreams?
(a) A more peaceful life.
(b) Revenge for the government soldiers.
(c) A better future for the boy.
(d) Her and the boy.

3. Why does the boy say that no one will mistake him and the others for Cuban, now?
(a) They have such good equipment.
(b) They are all so poor.
(c) They are all seasick.
(d) They are all sunburned.

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

5. What does Mrs. Azile want for Caroline?
(a) A nice man.
(b) A natural-born American.
(c) A Haitian man.
(d) A rich man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy say he is glad his boat is not full of?

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

3. What is the literary term for the brief scene at the end of Seeing Things Simply?

4. What does the narrator compare writing to, for the character in the epilogue?

5. Where is Catherine from?

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