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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What upsets Oreline about her aunt's actions to get money?
(a) That she sold Palmire's children.
(b) That she won't sell some of the fallow acres.
(c) That she is trying to get Oreline to marry a wealthy gambler.
(d) That she is flirting with a man of dubious reputation.

2. What does Francoise worry about concerning Oreline?
(a) That she will marry Eugene.
(b) That she will never have children.
(c) That she will never marry.
(d) That she will join a convent as she has threatened.

3. What does Suzette say about the relationship between Doralise and Philippe?
(a) It is blissful.
(b) It is romantic.
(c) It is deteriorating.
(d) It is lopsided.

4. What is Elisabeth's job at the plantation?
(a) Accountant.
(b) Scribe.
(c) Cook.
(d) Tailor.

5. Who is often loaned to other plantation to provide music?
(a) Elisabeth.
(b) Oreline.
(c) Gerasime.
(d) Suzette.

6. Why does Clement throw a chair out of the boat?
(a) To lighten the boat.
(b) To get the chair to shore.
(c) To test the current.
(d) To hold on to and float.

7. What does Garasime say is attached to the slaves after the assessors come?
(a) A scar.
(b) A future.
(c) A taint.
(d) A price.

8. Why does Oreline refuse Suzette's request in Chapter 1?
(a) She does not know how to write either.
(b) She is afraid of being sold.
(c) She is mean hearted
(d) She is unwilling to hide anything from her aunt and uncle.

9. What does Philomene realize about Suzette in Chapter 9?
(a) She is unhappy.
(b) She is pregnant again.
(c) She is very ill.
(d) She is planning to escape to the North.

10. What does Suzette think when she is ill in Chapter 4?
(a) She has typhus.
(b) She has yellow fever.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is dying.

11. What does the overseer recommend in Chapter 6 in order for Francoise to get some needed cash?
(a) Rotate among more crops.
(b) Sell some slaves.
(c) Find a wealthy man to marry.
(d) Plant cotton in more of the acreage.

12. In Chapter 4, with whom does Eugene move in?
(a) Oreline.
(b) Suzette.
(c) Doralise.
(d) His brother.

13. What is Suzette about to do at the opening to Chapter 2?
(a) Steal a few coins.
(b) Meet a boy on a neighboring plantation.
(c) Be confirmed.
(d) Run away.

14. What relation is Doralise Derbanne to Suzette?
(a) Friend.
(b) Godmother.
(c) Aunt.
(d) Grandmother.

15. What does Eugene Daurat do that many of his family do not?
(a) Go to an Anglican church.
(b) Live part-time in France.
(c) Fox hunts.
(d) Speak English.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Narcisse's wife die?

2. How much time has passed in Chapter 7 since Chapter 6?

3. What does Philomene do when Clement arrives?

4. To whom is Eugene Daurat related?

5. What does Suzette pretend in front of Francoise in Chapter 7?

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