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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 Lamort’s grandmother rub her body with?
(a) Mint leaves.
(b) Hibiscus flowers.
(c) Lemon.
(d) Rosemary.

2. How did Raymond get his limp?
(a) He was beaten by soldiers.
(b) He was shot accidentally.
(c) He was shot in battle.
(d) He was born with it.

3. Why does the old man tell Princesse he is lucky?
(a) His wife left town for a day.
(b) He got someone to buy him alcohol.
(c) He gets to see her twice in a day.
(d) The rooster he bet on won.

4. What has Emilie brought pieces of cloth to Ville Rose for?
(a) She is going to bury them with her mother’s body.
(b) She is going to make a funeral veil for her mother.
(c) She is going to pay Lamort with them, for taking her to her mother’s body.
(d) She is going to sew them into a purple blanket.

5. What is the password Raymond tells Lamort?
(a) Don't shoot.
(b) Long live the President.
(c) I'm a friend.
(d) Peace.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Catherine from?

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

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

5. What story will the woman tell her son if he wakes up while she is with a customer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What significance does the girl’s name have, in The Missing Peace?

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

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

6. How did Raymond get his limp?

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

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

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

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

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