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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 narrator waiting for at the end of Between the Pool and the Gardenias?
(a) Death.
(b) Justice.
(c) Her family.
(d) The law.

2. What is the narrator’s job, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias?
(a) Cook.
(b) Nanny.
(c) Housekeeper.
(d) Groundskeeper.

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

4. What does the narrator say she feels about night-time?
(a) Tenderness.
(b) Affection.
(c) Longing.
(d) Dread.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Catherine say is the most important part of a face?

2. How does the narrator tell whether her son is asleep?

3. Where are the cock fights taking place?

4. What does Lamort’s grandmother say will affect how people treat you?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the woman’s suitors?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What happens at night at the burial ground?

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

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

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

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