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

2. What regime does Lamort say she supports?
(a) The old regime.
(b) God’s regime.
(c) The new regime.
(d) The ancient regime.

3. What story will the woman tell her son if he wakes up while she is with a customer?
(a) That sex is a mystery.
(b) That he dreamed it.
(c) That she was not herself.
(d) That a man is a mirage.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color does the narrator say her eyes are?

2. What does the narrator of Night Women tell her son when he asks about the angels?

3. What does Emilie give to Lamort, for posterity?

4. What is the literary term for the brief scene at the end of Seeing Things Simply?

5. What happens when Emilie shows Lamort a photo of her (Emilie’s) mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Princesse’s relationship with Catherine?

2. What gift does Emilie make to Lamort?

3. What happens at night at the burial ground?

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

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

6. Where does Catherine go when she is gone for a week?

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

8. Who are the woman’s suitors?

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

10. How are mothers lost in The Missing Peace?

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