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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose name does Lamort say she wants to use, now?
(a) Emilie’s mother’s.
(b) Her mother’s.
(c) Emilie’s.
(d) Her grandmother’s.

3. Where does the narrator of New York Day Women see her mother?
(a) Ville Rose.
(b) Midtown Manhattan.
(c) Port-au-Prince.
(d) Paris.

4. What is the old man like, who is watching the cock fight?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A Cuban.
(c) A drunk.
(d) An American.

5. What happens to even miscarried children in Ville Rose, according to the narrator?
(a) All the pieces are dried out and kept.
(b) All the pieces are buried.
(c) They are hidden from anyone.
(d) They are ritually burned.

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

7. What does the narrator of Night Women wear to tempt her suitors?
(a) A red scarf.
(b) Red underwear.
(c) Red stockings.
(d) A red coat.

8. Who comes to the narrator on Tuesdays and Saturdays?
(a) A writer.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A soldier.

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

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

11. In what situation does Catherine hope to paint Princesse one day?
(a) In the palace.
(b) In the city.
(c) On the beach.
(d) While she is sleeping.

12. How does the narrator characterize the old man?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Handsome.
(c) Pathetic.
(d) Deformed.

13. What objection does Lamort’s grandmother make to the hibiscus she has brought home?
(a) They grow in the cemetery.
(b) They grow with blood on them.
(c) They refuse to show mourning for the dead.
(d) They grow from the bones of the dead.

14. What happened to Lamort’s mother?
(a) She was killed by her husband.
(b) She died giving birth to her.
(c) She was killed in the coup.
(d) She was killed at the Massacre River.

15. What does Princesse feel about her body?
(a) Delighted.
(b) Vein.
(c) Unimpressed.
(d) Ashamed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lamort say she cannot have sex with Raymond?

2. What is the dead baby next to when the narrator finds it?

3. What does the narrator of Between the Pool and the Gardenias compare the dead baby to?

4. What regime does Lamort say she supports?

5. What is Lamort playing with at the beginning of The Missing Peace?

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