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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 is Mrs. Azile always making soup from?
(a) Fish bones.
(b) Chicken bones.
(c) Cow bones.
(d) Turtle liver.

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

3. What were the colors of the envelope in which Mrs. Azile’s marriage proposal arrived supposed to signify?
(a) Fertility and desire.
(b) Religion and nation.
(c) Romance and hope.
(d) Propriety and purity.

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

5. Where is Catherine from?
(a) Guadeloupe.
(b) New York.
(c) Port-au-Prince.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Raymond offer Lamort?

2. What does Lamort’s grandmother say posterity is?

3. What terrifies Lili?

4. What is Princesse’s involvement with the cock fight?

5. What does Catherine have to do to get Princesse to remove her underwear before she poses for her?

(see the answer key)

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