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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the narrator say she feels about night-time?
(a) Dread.
(b) Affection.
(c) Tenderness.
(d) Longing.
2. What does the narrator say she could give to the baby she finds?
(a) The love her husband no longer wanted.
(b) The blankets she had been crocheting.
(c) The money she had saved.
(d) The clothes she made for her own babies.
3. How does Emilie say she became a woman last night?
(a) She lost her mother.
(b) She lost her virginity.
(c) She lost her innocence.
(d) She lost her hopes.
4. What is remarkable about Catherine’s sunbathing?
(a) She never uses sunscreen.
(b) She never changes color.
(c) She remains quite fair.
(d) She never complains about her sunburn.
5. What is the narrator’s mother principally concerned with?
(a) The daughter’s health.
(b) The daughter sending money to Haiti.
(c) The daughter marrying.
(d) The daughter’s career.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where are the cock fights taking place?
2. What regime does Lamort say she supports?
3. How does Emilie find out whether Lamort can read?
4. What does the daughter do with the clothing her mother buys her?
5. What is Lamort playing with at the beginning of The Missing Peace?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Danticat reveal the nature of the baby the woman has found in Between the Pool and the Gardenias?
2. What significance does the girl’s name have, in The Missing Peace?
3. What does the woman plan to tell her son if he wakes up and sees her with a man?
4. Who are the woman’s suitors?
5. What role do the angels play in Night Women?
6. What is the role of ‘posterity’ in The Missing Peace?
7. What gift does Emilie make to Lamort?
8. How are mothers lost in The Missing Peace?
9. What predicament is the woman in, at the end of Between the Pool and the Gardenias?
10. What does Catherine say about the project of capturing the human form in art?
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