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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. Where does the narrator of New York Day Women see her mother?

2. In what situation does Catherine hope to paint Princesse one day?

3. How old is Princesse in Seeing Things Simply?

4. What happens when the narrator takes the baby with her to the market?

5. What promise does Catherine make to Princesse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Princesse’s relationship with Catherine?

2. Who are the woman’s suitors?

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

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

5. What kind of people typically stay in the Lamort’s grandmother’s hotel?

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

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

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

9. What happens at night at the burial ground?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the role of writing in Krik? Krak!? Who is responsible for story telling, and what kind of stories do they tell? What kind of stories are required, and what does the work of storytelling involve a person in? Using examples from the text, describe the importance of storytelling in Edwidge Danticat’s book of stories.

Essay Topic 2

What is it that makes people Haitian in Krik? Krak!? Why are these qualities worth holding onto, when the country—and its neighbor—has been murderous to Haitian people? How do the characters—how does the author—navigate the emotions associated with leaving a country and giving up an identity?

Essay Topic 3

Write an evaluative review of Krik? Krak!. What is this book’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

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