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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say she could give to the baby she finds?
(a) The clothes she made for her own babies.
(b) The money she had saved.
(c) The love her husband no longer wanted.
(d) The blankets she had been crocheting.

2. What is the password Raymond tells Lamort?
(a) Don't shoot.
(b) Long live the President.
(c) I'm a friend.
(d) Peace.

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 tell her a secret.
(c) He has to give her money.
(d) He has to get her out of this town.

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

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

6. When do day women come out?
(a) When their children need them.
(b) When they have their liberty.
(c) When no one expects them.
(d) When the night’s work is done.

7. Who told Emilie that her mother might be in Ville Rose?
(a) Her sense of intuition.
(b) Her network of informers.
(c) Her mother’s colleagues.
(d) Her mother’s letters.

8. Where are the cock fights taking place?
(a) On the beach.
(b) Beneath a banyan tree.
(c) In a hut.
(d) In the town.

9. How does Emilie say she became a woman last night?
(a) She lost her mother.
(b) She lost her innocence.
(c) She lost her hopes.
(d) She lost her virginity.

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

11. What does Raymond offer Lamort?
(a) To take her away from here.
(b) To pay her for sex.
(c) To make her feel like a woman.
(d) To marry her.

12. What is Princesse’s involvement with the cock fight?
(a) She is walking past it.
(b) She is watching it.
(c) She is betting on it.
(d) She is collecting someone from it.

13. What has Emilie brought pieces of cloth to Ville Rose for?
(a) She is going to bury them with her mother’s body.
(b) She is going to make a funeral veil for her mother.
(c) She is going to sew them into a purple blanket.
(d) She is going to pay Lamort with them, for taking her to her mother’s body.

14. What does Lamort take to the guest at her grandmother’s house?
(a) A spare blanket.
(b) A set of beach towels.
(c) Needles and thread.
(d) Afternoon tea.

15. How old is the narrator in Night Women?
(a) 18.
(b) 14
(c) 25.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn’t the narrator’s mother go to parent-teacher meetings?

2. How are the narrator’s bed and her son’s separated?

3. What is remarkable about Catherine’s sunbathing?

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

5. Where does the narrator of New York Day Women work?

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