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

2. What story will the woman tell her son if he wakes up while she is with a customer?
(a) That he dreamed it.
(b) That she was not herself.
(c) That sex is a mystery.
(d) That a man is a mirage.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator of Between the Pool and the Gardenias compare the dead baby to?

2. What does Lamort’s grandmother say will affect how people treat you?

3. What does the narrator of Night Women tell her son when he asks about the angels?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Catherine go when she is gone for a week?

2. Who are the woman’s suitors?

3. What is the role of ‘posterity’ in The Missing Peace?

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

5. How does being exposed to Catherine’s painting and her point of view affect Princesse?

6. What is Princesse’s relationship with Catherine?

7. What kind of people typically stay in the Lamort’s grandmother’s hotel?

8. What is the woman’s relationship with the character in the earlier stories?

9. How is Seeing Things Simply framed?

10. What role do the angels play in Night Women?

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