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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator of Night Women tell her son when he asks about the angels?
2. What is Catherine’s demeanor toward Princesse?
3. What does the baby in Between the Pool and the Gardenias make the narrator think about?
4. What promise does Catherine make to Princesse?
5. How does Emilie say she became a woman last night?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are Princesse’s feelings about modeling nude?
2. How does the woman know when her son is asleep?
3. How is Seeing Things Simply framed?
4. How does Danticat reveal the nature of the baby the woman has found in Between the Pool and the Gardenias?
5. What does the woman plan to tell her son if he wakes up and sees her with a man?
6. What happens at night at the burial ground?
7. What is the role of ‘posterity’ in The Missing Peace?
8. What predicament is the woman in, at the end of Between the Pool and the Gardenias?
9. How is Catherine, as an artist, different from other characters in Krik? Krak!?
10. Where does Catherine go when she is gone for a week?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the importance of dead children in Krik? Krak!? How do children die, and what does their death mean—to the characters and also to the author, and the story that is told through the stories?
Essay Topic 2
How would you rewrite Krik? Krak!, if you were to adapt it and make it your own? What part of the book would you preserve? What part would you change? Explain your motivation for the changes you would make.
Essay Topic 3
When is Krik? Krak! most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
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