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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. Where are the cock fights taking place?

3. What happens when Emilie shows Lamort a photo of her (Emilie’s) mother?

4. What does the daughter do with the clothing her mother buys her?

5. What is the narrator waiting for at the end of Between the Pool and the Gardenias?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Raymond get his limp?

2. What happens at night at the burial ground?

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

4. Who are the woman’s suitors?

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

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

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

8. What is Princesse’s relationship with Catherine?

9. What gift does Emilie make to Lamort?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate your own reading of Krik? Krak!—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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