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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 kind of people typically stay at Lamort’s grandmother’s house?
(a) Journalists.
(b) Artists.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Government officials.

2. What does the narrator say her customer calls her, when she satisfies him?
(a) A river.
(b) An avalanche.
(c) A palace.
(d) An ocean.

3. How does Emilie find out whether Lamort can read?
(a) She shows her her soap packet.
(b) She offers her a tin of cookies.
(c) She gives her a magazine.
(d) She offers her a book.

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

5. What promise does Catherine make to Princesse?
(a) Not to let anyone in Haiti see her paintings of her.
(b) To share the money she gets for the paintings.
(c) Never to let anyone see her paintings of her.
(d) To sell the paintings for good money in Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the old man?

2. Where does Princesse make her drawing at the end of Seeing Things Simply?

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

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 difference between night and day in Night Women?

2. How is Seeing Things Simply framed?

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

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. What role do the angels play in Night Women?

7. What happens at night at the burial ground?

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

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

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

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