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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 Princesse feel about her body?

2. What would the narrator of Night Women like her son to forget about the place where they live?

3. What do Madame and Monsieur say is holding Haiti back?

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

5. How old is Princesse in Seeing Things Simply?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What gift does Emilie make to Lamort?

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

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

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

6. What is Princesse’s relationship with Catherine?

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

8. Who are the woman’s suitors?

9. What is the woman’s relationship with the character in the earlier stories?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

When is Krik? Krak! most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?

Essay Topic 3

Write an evaluative review of Krik? Krak!. What is this book’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

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