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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 is the old man like, who is watching the cock fight?
(a) An American.
(b) A drunk.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A Cuban.

2. What is the literary term for the brief scene at the end of Seeing Things Simply?
(a) Refrain.
(b) Repetition.
(c) Cliffhanger.
(d) Foreshadowing.

3. How does the reader learn that the baby the narrator has found is dead?
(a) When it the groundskeeper finds it.
(b) When its skin tears without bleeding.
(c) When it begins to attract flies.
(d) When it begins to turn black.

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

5. In what situation does Catherine hope to paint Princesse one day?
(a) In the palace.
(b) On the beach.
(c) While she is sleeping.
(d) In the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the narrator’s bed and her son’s separated?

2. What does Lamort’s grandmother rub her body with?

3. What makes the narrator wary of the baby?

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

5. What does Raymond offer Lamort?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Seeing Things Simply framed?

2. How did Raymond get his limp?

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

4. What does the woman plan to tell her son if he wakes up and sees her with a man?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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