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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does the narrator of Night Women wear to tempt her suitors?
(a) A red scarf.
(b) Red underwear.
(c) A red coat.
(d) Red stockings.

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

12. Where does the narrator of New York Day Women see her mother?
(a) Port-au-Prince.
(b) Ville Rose.
(c) Paris.
(d) Midtown Manhattan.

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

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

15. Where are the cock fights taking place?
(a) On the beach.
(b) In the town.
(c) In a hut.
(d) Beneath a banyan tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lamort’s grandmother say posterity is?

2. What does the narrator say the baby smelled like?

3. When do day women come out?

4. What does Raymond offer Lamort?

5. Why does the narrator say that certain women destroy at night the work they do in the day?

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