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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 is Lamort playing with at the beginning of The Missing Peace?

2. What does the baby in Between the Pool and the Gardenias make the narrator think about?

3. What does Raymond offer Lamort?

4. How does the reader learn that the baby the narrator has found is dead?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at night at the burial ground?

2. How is Seeing Things Simply framed?

3. Who are the woman’s suitors?

4. What is Princesse’s relationship with Catherine?

5. How are mothers lost in The Missing Peace?

6. What gift does Emilie make to Lamort?

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

8. What is the role of ‘posterity’ in The Missing Peace?

9. How did Raymond get his limp?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways is Krik? Krak! relevant to contemporary readers? What contemporary issues are in play in the book, and how would the book contribute to contemporary discussion? Cite specific discussions from contemporary sources, and cite specific instances from the book, that describe its contemporary relevance.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

What is the difference between city and country in Krik? Krak!? How does Edwidge Danticat characterize each of these environments, and how does she define the differences that distinguish them?

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