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

3. Who told Emilie that her mother might be in Ville Rose?

4. Who comes to the narrator on Tuesdays and Saturdays?

5. What makes the narrator wary of the baby?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the woman’s suitors?

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

3. How is Seeing Things Simply framed?

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

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

6. What role do the angels play in Night Women?

7. What is Princesse’s relationship with Catherine?

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

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

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

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

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

Who is the audience for Krik? Krak!? What is the ideal reader for Krik? Krak! likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

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