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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the girl visit her mother?
(a) At home.
(b) At the cemetery.
(c) At her parents’ house.
(d) In prison.

2. What is remarkable about Catherine’s sunbathing?
(a) She remains quite fair.
(b) She never complains about her sunburn.
(c) She never uses sunscreen.
(d) She never changes color.

3. What do Madame and Monsieur say is holding Haiti back?
(a) Racism.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Voodoo.
(d) America.

4. What do the prison guards suspect the girl’s mother of being?
(a) A terrorist.
(b) A spy.
(c) A witch.
(d) A provocateur.

5. What is the dead baby next to when the narrator finds it?
(a) A sewer.
(b) A store.
(c) A road.
(d) A house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girl say when she finally talks to her mother?

2. How does the girl know the person who tells her that her mother has died?

3. Where does Princesse make her drawing at the end of Seeing Things Simply?

4. What is the narrator’s relationship with the groundskeeper?

5. How would you characterize the narrator’s tone toward her mother, in New York Day Women?

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