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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. What is remarkable about Catherine’s sunbathing?

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

4. How does the narrator tell whether her son is asleep?

5. What has Emilie brought pieces of cloth to Ville Rose for?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens at night at the burial ground?

3. How are mothers lost in The Missing Peace?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What gift does Emilie make to Lamort?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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