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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Raymond invite Lamort to see from the pile of dirt?
(a) His body.
(b) A lizard.
(c) A butterfly.
(d) The sunset.

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

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

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

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

6. What does the narrator say she feels about night-time?
(a) Dread.
(b) Tenderness.
(c) Longing.
(d) Affection.

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

8. What happens when the narrator takes the baby with her to the market?
(a) People accuse her of stealing the baby.
(b) People accuse her of killing the baby.
(c) No one notices.
(d) People want to know who the father is.

9. What does Emilie give to Lamort, for posterity?
(a) Her mother’s name.
(b) Her mother’s letters.
(c) Her mother’s photograph.
(d) Her mother’s pieces of cloth.

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

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

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

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

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

15. What does Lamort’s grandmother say posterity is?
(a) Remembering.
(b) Telling stories.
(c) Saving pictures.
(d) Growing up.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What regime does Lamort say she supports?

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

4. What does Catherine say is the most important part of a face?

5. What makes the narrator wary of the baby?

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