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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happened to Lamort’s mother?
(a) She died giving birth to her.
(b) She was killed in the coup.
(c) She was killed by her husband.
(d) She was killed at the Massacre River.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What promise does Catherine make to Princesse?
(a) To sell the paintings for good money in Paris.
(b) Never to let anyone see her paintings of her.
(c) To share the money she gets for the paintings.
(d) Not to let anyone in Haiti see her paintings of her.

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

10. What does the narrator of Night Women tell her son when he asks about the angels?
(a) That he has all his life to see angels.
(b) That he will see them soon enough.
(c) That he will wish he had not seen them, when he does.
(d) That he will never see them when he is looking.

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

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

13. What does Lamort tell Emilie when Emilie asks whether there were any women’s bodies found after the coup?
(a) She says that there were no bodies.
(b) She says that anyone inquiring about the dead was killed too.
(c) She says that the bodies were buried immediately.
(d) She says that the bodies were all burned.

14. What happens when Emilie shows Lamort a photo of her (Emilie’s) mother?
(a) Lamort says she knew her.
(b) Lamort knows someone who knew her.
(c) Lamort does not recognize her.
(d) Lamort is not sure she remembers her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator’s relationship, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias, with the women in the earlier stories?

2. What does the narrator say she could give to the baby she finds?

3. What did Emilie’s mother do before she was killed?

4. What is the narrator’s job, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias?

5. What happens to even miscarried children in Ville Rose, according to the narrator?

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