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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 the baby smelled like?
(a) Madame’s cooking.
(b) The house she grew up in.
(c) Madame’s perfumes.
(d) The department stores.

2. Who comes to the narrator on Tuesdays and Saturdays?
(a) A writer.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A doctor.

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

4. What is Catherine’s demeanor toward Princesse?
(a) Brusque.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Commanding.
(d) Patient.

5. What form does New York Day Women take?
(a) Aphorisms.
(b) Narrative.
(c) Stream-of-consciousness.
(d) Dialogue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lamort take to the guest at her grandmother’s house?

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

3. What does Princesse feel about her body?

4. What does Lamort’s grandmother say posterity is?

5. Who told Emilie that her mother might be in Ville Rose?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the difference between night and day in Night Women?

2. What is the role of ‘posterity’ in The Missing Peace?

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

4. What does Catherine say about the project of capturing the human form in art?

5. What is the relationship between art and cock fighting in The Missing Peace?

6. How does being exposed to Catherine’s painting and her point of view affect Princesse?

7. What happens at night at the burial ground?

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

9. What is Princesse’s relationship with Catherine?

10. What significance does the girl’s name have, in The Missing Peace?

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