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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How would you characterize the narrator’s tone toward her mother, in New York Day Women?
(a) Confused.
(b) Bemused.
(c) Delighted.
(d) Appalled.

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

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

5. Why does the narrator say that certain women destroy at night the work they do in the day?
(a) As a way of distracting themselves.
(b) So they will always have work to do.
(c) As a way to bring men back to them.
(d) So that they will keep their hands busy.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What is the narrator’s job, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias?
(a) Cook.
(b) Nanny.
(c) Groundskeeper.
(d) Housekeeper.

12. What is remarkable about Catherine’s sunbathing?
(a) She never complains about her sunburn.
(b) She never uses sunscreen.
(c) She never changes color.
(d) She remains quite fair.

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

14. What does Lamort’s grandmother rub her body with?
(a) Hibiscus flowers.
(b) Mint leaves.
(c) Lemon.
(d) Rosemary.

15. Where does the narrator of New York Day Women work?
(a) Advertising.
(b) Fashion design.
(c) Import/export.
(d) The law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lamort take to the guest at her grandmother’s house?

2. What objection does Lamort’s grandmother make to the hibiscus she has brought home?

3. When do day women come out?

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

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

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