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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Lamort say she cannot have sex with Raymond?
(a) Because she would be thrown out of her house.
(b) Because she might have a baby.
(c) Because she would be killed.
(d) Because he would not marry her.

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

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

4. What is the narrator’s mother principally concerned with?
(a) The daughter’s health.
(b) The daughter marrying.
(c) The daughter’s career.
(d) The daughter sending money to Haiti.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what situation does Catherine hope to paint Princesse one day?

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

3. What does Raymond offer Lamort?

4. How did Raymond get his limp?

5. What story will the woman tell her son if he wakes up while she is with a customer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at night at the burial ground?

2. How is Seeing Things Simply framed?

3. What is the difference between night and day in Night Women?

4. How is Catherine, as an artist, different from other characters in Krik? Krak!?

5. What gift does Emilie make to Lamort?

6. Who are the woman’s suitors?

7. What is the girl’s relationship with Raymond?

8. How are mothers lost in The Missing Peace?

9. What is Princesse’s relationship with Catherine?

10. What is the relationship between art and cock fighting in The Missing Peace?

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