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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 work?

2. Why does the narrator’s roof still have holes in it?

3. What does the narrator say she feels about night-time?

4. How are the narrator’s bed and her son’s separated?

5. What does Emilie give to Lamort, for posterity?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who are the woman’s suitors?

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

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

9. What is Princesse’s relationship with Catherine?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What values does she hold dear? What are her hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think she is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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