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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does the narrator characterize the old man?
(a) Handsome.
(b) Deformed.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Pathetic.

7. What does the narrator say the baby smelled like?
(a) Madame’s cooking.
(b) The house she grew up in.
(c) The department stores.
(d) Madame’s perfumes.

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

9. What is the narrator waiting for at the end of Between the Pool and the Gardenias?
(a) The law.
(b) Death.
(c) Her family.
(d) Justice.

10. What does Lamort take to the guest at her grandmother’s house?
(a) Afternoon tea.
(b) A spare blanket.
(c) Needles and thread.
(d) A set of beach towels.

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

12. How does Emilie say she became a woman last night?
(a) She lost her mother.
(b) She lost her hopes.
(c) She lost her virginity.
(d) She lost her innocence.

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

14. What does Raymond offer Lamort?
(a) To make her feel like a woman.
(b) To marry her.
(c) To take her away from here.
(d) To pay her for sex.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How would you characterize the narrator’s tone toward her mother, in New York Day Women?

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

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

4. Where does Princesse make her drawing at the end of Seeing Things Simply?

5. What is Princesse’s involvement with the cock fight?

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