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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How old is the narrator in Night Women?
(a) 14
(b) 12.
(c) 25.
(d) 18.

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

8. Why doesn’t the narrator’s mother go to parent-teacher meetings?
(a) She doesn’t speak English very well.
(b) She doesn’t want to fight with the teachers.
(c) She doesn’t want her daughter to be ashamed.
(d) She doesn’t feel like she is really raising her daughter.

9. 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 is not sure she remembers her.
(d) Lamort does not recognize her.

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

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

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

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

14. What is the old man like, who is watching the cock fight?
(a) A drunk.
(b) A Cuban.
(c) A soldier.
(d) An American.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the narrator takes the baby with her to the market?

2. How does Emilie say she became a woman last night?

3. What is the narrator’s relationship with the groundskeeper?

4. What is Lamort playing with at the beginning of The Missing Peace?

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

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