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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. When do day women come out?
(a) When their children need them.
(b) When no one expects them.
(c) When they have their liberty.
(d) When the night’s work is done.

2. What has Emilie brought pieces of cloth to Ville Rose for?
(a) She is going to make a funeral veil for her mother.
(b) She is going to bury them with her mother’s body.
(c) She is going to sew them into a purple blanket.
(d) She is going to pay Lamort with them, for taking her to her mother’s body.

3. How does Emilie find out whether Lamort can read?
(a) She offers her a book.
(b) She offers her a tin of cookies.
(c) She gives her a magazine.
(d) She shows her her soap packet.

4. Where does the narrator of New York Day Women see her mother?
(a) Paris.
(b) Midtown Manhattan.
(c) Port-au-Prince.
(d) Ville Rose.

5. 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 give her money.
(c) He has to get her out of this town.
(d) He has to tell her a secret.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the narrator in Night Women?

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

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

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

5. Where does the narrator of New York Day Women work?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who are the woman’s suitors?

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

5. How is Seeing Things Simply framed?

6. How does the woman know when her son is asleep?

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

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

9. What does Catherine say about the project of capturing the human form in art?

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

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