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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 is Princesse’s involvement with the cock fight?

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

3. What does Lamort tell Emilie when Emilie asks whether there were any women’s bodies found after the coup?

4. What does Raymond invite Lamort to see from the pile of dirt?

5. What does Lamort’s grandmother rub her body with?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Raymond get his limp?

3. How are mothers lost in The Missing Peace?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who are the woman’s suitors?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Evaluate your own reading of Krik? Krak!—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

Essay Topic 3

In what ways is Krik? Krak! relevant to contemporary readers? What contemporary issues are in play in the book, and how would the book contribute to contemporary discussion? Cite specific discussions from contemporary sources, and cite specific instances from the book, that describe its contemporary relevance.

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