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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 Lamort take to the guest at her grandmother’s house?

2. What is the dead baby next to when the narrator finds it?

3. Why doesn’t the narrator’s mother go to parent-teacher meetings?

4. What is the narrator’s mother principally concerned with?

5. How does Emilie find out whether Lamort can read?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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 woman’s relationship with the character in the earlier stories?

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

8. Who are the woman’s suitors?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What topics would you like to research further, after reading Krik? Krak!. Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on Krik? Krak!.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

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