2. Why doesn’t the narrator’s mother go to parent-teacher meetings?
(a) She doesn’t feel like she is really raising her daughter.
(b) She doesn’t want her daughter to be ashamed.
(c) She doesn’t speak English very well.
(d) She doesn’t want to fight with the teachers.

3. What color does the narrator say her eyes are?
(a) Honey.
(b) Sky.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Gold.

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

5. What makes the narrator wary of the baby?
(a) She might be a bomb.
(b) She might be a trap.
(c) She might be a curse.
(d) She might need a lot of care.

6. What happens when Emilie shows Lamort a photo of her (Emilie’s) mother?
(a) Lamort does not recognize her.
(b) Lamort knows someone who knew her.
(c) Lamort is not sure she remembers her.
(d) Lamort says she knew her.

7. What promise does Catherine make to Princesse?
(a) To sell the paintings for good money in Paris.
(b) Never to let anyone see her paintings of her.
(c) To share the money she gets for the paintings.
(d) Not to let anyone in Haiti see her paintings of her.

8. What is Lamort playing with at the beginning of The Missing Peace?
(a) Cockroaches.
(b) Butterflies.
(c) A lizard.
(d) A dog.

9. How are the narrator’s bed and her son’s separated?
(a) Separate rooms.
(b) A curtain.
(c) Separate buildings.
(d) Mosquito netting.

10. What is the dead baby next to when the narrator finds it?
(a) A sewer.
(b) A store.
(c) A house.
(d) A road.

11. What does the narrator of Night Women tell her son when he asks about the angels?
(a) That he will see them soon enough.
(b) That he will never see them when he is looking.
(c) That he has all his life to see angels.
(d) That he will wish he had not seen them, when he does.

12. What condition does Lamort impose on Raymond’s request to touch her breasts?
(a) He has to give her money.
(b) He has to tell her a story.
(c) He has to get her out of this town.
(d) He has to tell her a secret.

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

14. 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.

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