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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 & 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does her mother answer?
(a) She says that no human being can fly.
(b) She says that she will be home soon.
(c) She says that it is important that the daughters remember their mothers.
(d) She says that all the women who went to the river can fly.

2. What color does the narrator say her eyes are?
(a) Sky.
(b) Gold.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Honey.

3. How does the reader learn that the baby the narrator has found is dead?
(a) When it begins to turn black.
(b) When it the groundskeeper finds it.
(c) When it begins to attract flies.
(d) When its skin tears without bleeding.

4. Where does the narrator of New York Day Women work?
(a) Advertising.
(b) Import/export.
(c) Fashion design.
(d) The law.

5. Why does the old man tell Princesse he is lucky?
(a) He gets to see her twice in a day.
(b) His wife left town for a day.
(c) The rooster he bet on won.
(d) He got someone to buy him alcohol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the girl’s mother’s connection with the Massacre River?

2. What is the old man like, who is watching the cock fight?

3. How old was the girl when her mother took her on a pilgrimage to the Massacre River?

4. What is the narrator’s job, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias?

5. Where is the Massacre River?

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