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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 daughter do with the clothing her mother buys her?
(a) Donates it.
(b) Throws it away.
(c) Sells it.
(d) Wears it.

2. What does the narrator of Between the Pool and the Gardenias compare the dead baby to?
(a) A doll.
(b) A sculpture.
(c) A rag.
(d) An icon.

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

4. How does the narrator characterize the old man?
(a) Pathetic.
(b) Deformed.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Handsome.

5. What does Lamort’s grandmother say posterity is?
(a) Telling stories.
(b) Saving pictures.
(c) Remembering.
(d) Growing up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Madame and Monsieur say is holding Haiti back?

2. When do day women come out?

3. Who told Emilie that her mother might be in Ville Rose?

4. What does Princesse feel about her body?

5. Where are the cock fights taking place?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What predicament is the woman in, at the end of Between the Pool and the Gardenias?

6. Who are the woman’s suitors?

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

8. What gift does Emilie make to Lamort?

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

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

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