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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What is the literary term for the brief scene at the end of Seeing Things Simply?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Refrain.
(c) Repetition.
(d) Cliffhanger.

13. How does the narrator tell whether her son is asleep?
(a) She eats his favorite foods.
(b) She calls his names softly.
(c) She strokes his cheek with her lips.
(d) She scratches his head.

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

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