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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 does Lamort’s grandmother say will affect how people treat you?

2. What makes the narrator wary of the baby?

3. What is the password Raymond tells Lamort?

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

5. What objection does Lamort’s grandmother make to the hibiscus she has brought home?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the woman plan to tell her son if he wakes up and sees her with a man?

3. What happens at night at the burial ground?

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

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

6. How did Raymond get his limp?

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

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

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

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 the importance of ‘day women’ and ‘night women’ in Krik? Krak!? How do these images or ideas relate to the other main ideas of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What is the role and importance of voodoo in Krik? Krak!? How does Danticat characterize it? Using examples from the text, define Danticat’s view of voodoo.

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