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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. Why does Lamort say she cannot have sex with Raymond?

2. How old is Princesse in Seeing Things Simply?

3. Who comes to the narrator on Tuesdays and Saturdays?

4. What makes the narrator wary of the baby?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the woman know when her son is asleep?

3. Who are the woman’s suitors?

4. How is Seeing Things Simply framed?

5. What is Princesse’s relationship with Catherine?

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

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

8. How is Catherine, as an artist, different from other characters in Krik? Krak!?

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

10. What happens at night at the burial ground?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Debate the proposition that it is easier to see Haitian people’s history from a woman’s point of view. Using examples from the text, make an argument about the advantages and disadvantages of Edwidge Danticat’s female perspective on this particular political history.

Essay Topic 2

Would you recommend Krik? Krak!? For what purposes would you recommend Krik? Krak!, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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