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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lamort tell Emilie when Emilie asks whether there were any women’s bodies found after the coup?
(a) She says that the bodies were all burned.
(b) She says that there were no bodies.
(c) She says that anyone inquiring about the dead was killed too.
(d) She says that the bodies were buried immediately.

2. What does the narrator say her customer calls her, when she satisfies him?
(a) An avalanche.
(b) A palace.
(c) A river.
(d) An ocean.

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

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

5. Why does Lamort say she cannot have sex with Raymond?
(a) Because she might have a baby.
(b) Because she would be killed.
(c) Because he would not marry her.
(d) Because she would be thrown out of her house.

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

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

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

9. What does Catherine have to do to get Princesse to remove her underwear before she poses for her?
(a) Turn around.
(b) threaten her.
(c) Promise her money.
(d) Plead.

10. How old is Princesse in Seeing Things Simply?
(a) 18.
(b) 21.
(c) 16.
(d) 12.

11. What story will the woman tell her son if he wakes up while she is with a customer?
(a) That he dreamed it.
(b) That sex is a mystery.
(c) That she was not herself.
(d) That a man is a mirage.

12. Where does Princesse make her drawing at the end of Seeing Things Simply?
(a) On paper.
(b) In the water.
(c) In the dust.
(d) In the air.

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

14. What is Catherine’s demeanor toward Princesse?
(a) Patient.
(b) Commanding.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Brusque.

15. What is the narrator’s relationship, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias, with the women in the earlier stories?
(a) They are all Dominican like her.
(b) They come from the town she came from.
(c) They are her ancestors.
(d) They have all worked for the same Madame.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what situation does Catherine hope to paint Princesse one day?

2. Whose name does Lamort say she wants to use, now?

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

4. Where are the cock fights taking place?

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

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