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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 the password Raymond tells Lamort?

2. What does Lamort take to the guest at her grandmother’s house?

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

4. What does the narrator of Night Women tell her son when he asks about the angels?

5. What does the narrator of Between the Pool and the Gardenias compare the dead baby to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Raymond get his limp?

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

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

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

5. What is Princesse’s relationship with Catherine?

6. What are Princesse’s feelings about modeling nude?

7. How is Seeing Things Simply framed?

8. What gift does Emilie make to Lamort?

9. Who are the woman’s suitors?

10. What is the relationship between art and cock fighting in The Missing Peace?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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