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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. What does the baby in Between the Pool and the Gardenias make the narrator think about?
(a) A friend who could not keep her baby.
(b) The babies she had given away.
(c) The pregnancies she could not keep.
(d) The baby she had aborted.

2. 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 her daughter to be ashamed.
(c) She doesn’t feel like she is really raising her daughter.
(d) She doesn’t want to fight with the teachers.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the cock fights taking place?

2. What does the narrator say the baby smelled like?

3. What does Lamort tell Emilie when Emilie asks whether there were any women’s bodies found after the coup?

4. How does the narrator characterize the old man?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What significance does the girl’s name have, in The Missing Peace?

3. What are Princesse’s feelings about modeling nude?

4. How are mothers lost in The Missing Peace?

5. How does Danticat reveal the nature of the baby the woman has found in Between the Pool and the Gardenias?

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

7. What is Princesse’s relationship with Catherine?

8. Who are the woman’s suitors?

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

10. What gift does Emilie make to Lamort?

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