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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 happens when Emilie shows Lamort a photo of her (Emilie’s) mother?
(a) Lamort says she knew her.
(b) Lamort is not sure she remembers her.
(c) Lamort does not recognize her.
(d) Lamort knows someone who knew her.

2. What does Emilie give to Lamort, for posterity?
(a) Her mother’s letters.
(b) Her mother’s name.
(c) Her mother’s pieces of cloth.
(d) Her mother’s photograph.

3. What does the narrator of Night Women wear to tempt her suitors?
(a) Red stockings.
(b) A red coat.
(c) Red underwear.
(d) A red scarf.

4. How old is Princesse in Seeing Things Simply?
(a) 18.
(b) 16.
(c) 21.
(d) 12.

5. How does the narrator tell whether her son is asleep?
(a) She scratches his head.
(b) She strokes his cheek with her lips.
(c) She eats his favorite foods.
(d) She calls his names softly.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do day women come out?

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

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

4. What does the narrator say her customer calls her, when she satisfies him?

5. How does the reader learn that the baby the narrator has found is dead?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who are the woman’s suitors?

4. How are mothers lost in The Missing Peace?

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

6. What gift does Emilie make to Lamort?

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

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

9. What is Princesse’s relationship with Catherine?

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

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