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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How would you characterize the narrator’s tone toward her mother, in New York Day Women?
(a) Delighted.
(b) Bemused.
(c) Appalled.
(d) Confused.

3. What does Lamort tell Emilie when Emilie asks whether there were any women’s bodies found after the coup?
(a) She says that there were no bodies.
(b) She says that the bodies were all burned.
(c) She says that anyone inquiring about the dead was killed too.
(d) She says that the bodies were buried immediately.

4. Where are the cock fights taking place?
(a) In a hut.
(b) In the town.
(c) On the beach.
(d) Beneath a banyan tree.

5. What does Lamort’s grandmother say will affect how people treat you?
(a) What you wear.
(b) Where you come from.
(c) What you do and say.
(d) Who your people are.

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

7. What does the narrator say she feels about night-time?
(a) Longing.
(b) Tenderness.
(c) Dread.
(d) Affection.

8. What makes the narrator wary of the baby?
(a) She might be a trap.
(b) She might be a bomb.
(c) She might be a curse.
(d) She might need a lot of care.

9. What is Princesse’s involvement with the cock fight?
(a) She is watching it.
(b) She is collecting someone from it.
(c) She is betting on it.
(d) She is walking past it.

10. How does Emilie find out whether Lamort can read?
(a) She gives her a magazine.
(b) She shows her her soap packet.
(c) She offers her a book.
(d) She offers her a tin of cookies.

11. What is the old man like, who is watching the cock fight?
(a) A drunk.
(b) A Cuban.
(c) An American.
(d) A soldier.

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

13. What is the password Raymond tells Lamort?
(a) Peace.
(b) Don't shoot.
(c) I'm a friend.
(d) Long live the President.

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

15. What objection does Lamort’s grandmother make to the hibiscus she has brought home?
(a) They grow from the bones of the dead.
(b) They grow in the cemetery.
(c) They refuse to show mourning for the dead.
(d) They grow with blood on them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emilie give to Lamort, for posterity?

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

3. What does Raymond offer Lamort?

4. What does the daughter do with the clothing her mother buys her?

5. What is the narrator’s relationship, in Between the Pool and the Gardenias, with the women in the earlier stories?

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