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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 the narrator takes the baby with her to the market?
(a) People want to know who the father is.
(b) No one notices.
(c) People accuse her of stealing the baby.
(d) People accuse her of killing the baby.

2. What is Lamort playing with at the beginning of The Missing Peace?
(a) Cockroaches.
(b) Butterflies.
(c) A lizard.
(d) A dog.

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

4. How are the narrator’s bed and her son’s separated?
(a) A curtain.
(b) Mosquito netting.
(c) Separate rooms.
(d) Separate buildings.

5. What condition does Lamort impose on Raymond’s request to touch her breasts?
(a) He has to tell her a secret.
(b) He has to tell her a story.
(c) He has to get her out of this town.
(d) He has to give her money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lamort take to the guest at her grandmother’s house?

2. In what situation does Catherine hope to paint Princesse one day?

3. How did Raymond get his limp?

4. Why doesn’t the narrator’s mother go to parent-teacher meetings?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How is Seeing Things Simply framed?

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

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

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

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

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