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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the reader learn that the baby the narrator has found is dead?
(a) When it begins to attract flies.
(b) When it the groundskeeper finds it.
(c) When it begins to turn black.
(d) When its skin tears without bleeding.

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

3. What did Emilie’s mother do before she was killed?
(a) Journalism.
(b) Play music and sing.
(c) Painting.
(d) Raise children.

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

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

6. 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.

7. What does Catherine say is the most important part of a face?
(a) The nose.
(b) The eyes.
(c) The mouth.
(d) The eyebrows.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What would the narrator of Night Women like her son to forget about the place where they live?
(a) That they have nothing there.
(b) That they could be driven out at any minute.
(c) That everything they had was taken.
(d) That nothing lasts there.

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

15. What kind of people typically stay at Lamort’s grandmother’s house?
(a) Journalists.
(b) Artists.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Government officials.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the baby in Between the Pool and the Gardenias make the narrator think about?

2. Who comes to the narrator on Tuesdays and Saturdays?

3. What does Raymond invite Lamort to see from the pile of dirt?

4. What does Lamort’s grandmother rub her body with?

5. What does the narrator say her customer calls her, when she satisfies him?

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