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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 blankets she had been crocheting.
(b) The money she had saved.
(c) The clothes she made for her own babies.
(d) The love her husband no longer wanted.

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

3. What does the baby in Between the Pool and the Gardenias make the narrator think about?
(a) The pregnancies she could not keep.
(b) The babies she had given away.
(c) The baby she had aborted.
(d) A friend who could not keep her baby.

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

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

6. How did Raymond get his limp?
(a) He was shot in battle.
(b) He was shot accidentally.
(c) He was born with it.
(d) He was beaten by soldiers.

7. What is the narrator’s mother principally concerned with?
(a) The daughter’s career.
(b) The daughter sending money to Haiti.
(c) The daughter marrying.
(d) The daughter’s health.

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

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

10. What form does New York Day Women take?
(a) Aphorisms.
(b) Narrative.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Stream-of-consciousness.

11. Why does the old man tell Princesse he is lucky?
(a) His wife left town for a day.
(b) He got someone to buy him alcohol.
(c) The rooster he bet on won.
(d) He gets to see her twice in a day.

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

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

14. What do Madame and Monsieur say is holding Haiti back?
(a) Poverty.
(b) America.
(c) Voodoo.
(d) Racism.

15. What has Emilie brought pieces of cloth to Ville Rose for?
(a) She is going to make a funeral veil for her mother.
(b) She is going to sew them into a purple blanket.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the daughter do with the clothing her mother buys her?

2. What story will the woman tell her son if he wakes up while she is with a customer?

3. What would the narrator of Night Women like her son to forget about the place where they live?

4. What happens when Emilie shows Lamort a photo of her (Emilie’s) mother?

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

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