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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. How much money does Narcisse have to pay to be draft exempt?
(a) 2,000 dollars.
(b) 500 dollars.
(c) 1,000 dollars.
(d) There is no way to buy out of the draft.

2. How do Augustine's letters change over a six-month period?
(a) From saying he is always tired to saying he is fit.
(b) From hopeful to pessimistic.
(c) From glorious descriptions to bitter.
(d) From homesick to hardened.

3. What does Elisabeth notice when she is telling the census taker about the women of the household?
(a) He is derisive of former slaves.
(b) He is not interested in the women.
(c) He wants a lot of information about them.
(d) He does not believe her.

4. Why does Suzette return to Oreline's homestead?
(a) To help care for Philomene.
(b) To be at Clement's burial.
(c) To help Oreline with the birth of her newest child.
(d) The family she went to cannot afford to keep her.

5. What makes it clear that the situation in the South is becoming serious at the opening of Chapter 22?
(a) Women are recruited to sew uniforms.
(b) Men are being trained as spies.
(c) Confederate money begins to circulate.
(d) More men are conscripted involuntarily.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emily admit concerning Elisabeth?

2. What is the white community grumbling about according to Narcisse, Antoine and Joseph Ferrier?

3. Why is Joseph's barn burned?

4. What does Philomene see Clement doing at the opening of Chapter 16?

5. What does Philomene want Joseph to do in Chapter 33?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Emily admit to Bet about Emily's feelings concerning Elisabeth?

2. What does Narcisse start building in Chapter 19?

3. Who becomes ill in Chapter 18, and who takes care of them?

4. Why does Narcisse begin to hoard money and food?

5. In Chapter 31, what does Joseph request from Philomene concerning Emily?

6. How does Philomene feel about the lives of her family?

7. What does Philomene think one day in Chapter 16 when she sees Clement holding one of their daughters?

8. Why does Philomene send Bet to Joseph's store where Emily is working?

9. Describe Elisabeth's encounter with a census taker.

10. In Chapter 25, what does Yellow John say about Clement's fate?

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