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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. In what situation does Catherine hope to paint Princesse one day?

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

3. What is the password Raymond tells Lamort?

4. What color does the narrator say her eyes are?

5. What is remarkable about Catherine’s sunbathing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are mothers lost in The Missing Peace?

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

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

5. What gift does Emilie make to Lamort?

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

7. How did Raymond get his limp?

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

9. What happens at night at the burial ground?

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

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

Who is the audience for Krik? Krak!? What is the ideal reader for Krik? Krak! likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

Essay Topic 3

Identify the most important plot points in Krik? Krak!. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

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