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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 Lamort’s grandmother say posterity is?

2. What does Lamort tell Emilie when Emilie asks whether there were any women’s bodies found after the coup?

3. What happens to even miscarried children in Ville Rose, according to the narrator?

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

5. What has Emilie brought pieces of cloth to Ville Rose for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the girl’s relationship with Raymond?

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

3. What is the woman’s relationship with the character in the earlier stories?

4. What gift does Emilie make to Lamort?

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

6. What is Princesse’s relationship with Catherine?

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

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

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

10. How are mothers lost in The Missing Peace?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Would you recommend Krik? Krak!? For what purposes would you recommend Krik? Krak!, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Debate the proposition that it is easier to see Haitian people’s history from a woman’s point of view. Using examples from the text, make an argument about the advantages and disadvantages of Edwidge Danticat’s female perspective on this particular political history.

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