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

2. Where are the cock fights taking place?
(a) In a hut.
(b) On the beach.
(c) Beneath a banyan tree.
(d) In the town.

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. Who comes to the narrator on Tuesdays and Saturdays?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A writer.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A doctor.

5. Why does Lamort say she cannot have sex with Raymond?
(a) Because she might have a baby.
(b) Because he would not marry her.
(c) Because she would be thrown out of her house.
(d) Because she would be killed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say she could give to the baby she finds?

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

4. What form does New York Day Women take?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What gift does Emilie make to Lamort?

4. How is Seeing Things Simply framed?

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

6. What happens at night at the burial ground?

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

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

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

10. Who are the woman’s suitors?

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