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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 condition does Lamort impose on Raymond’s request to touch her breasts?

2. How does the narrator characterize the old man?

3. What does Catherine say is the most important part of a face?

4. What story will the woman tell her son if he wakes up while she is with a customer?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How is Seeing Things Simply framed?

7. What is the difference between night and day in Night Women?

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

9. What happens at night at the burial ground?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

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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