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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is all that’s left of the chapel at the plantation Ti Noël visits in Part Three: Chapter II?
(a) The confessional
(b) The sacrificial altar
(c) The pulpit
(d) The weather vane

2. What previously unnoticed sound does King Henri Christophe observe in the palace rooms in Part Three: Chapter VI?
(a) Owls hooting
(b) Insects buzzing
(c) Frogs croaking
(d) Ducks quacking

3. One of Pauline’s maids discovers Pauline and a slave performing a ritual in which what animal has been sacrificed in Part Two: Chapter VII?
(a) A rat
(b) A pig
(c) A monkey
(d) A rooster

4. What is the title of Part Three: Chapter II?
(a) San Souci
(b) The Immured
(c) The Great Fight
(d) The Reckoning

5. One of Pauline’s maids discovers Pauline on the floor with another slave dancing around her holding what in Part Two: Chapter VII?
(a) A hatchet
(b) A machete
(c) A frying pan
(d) A sickle

6. What priest and confessor of King Henri Christophe has been taken prisoner in Part Three: Chapter IV?
(a) Bouckman
(b) Auberge de la Couronne
(c) Soliman
(d) Corneille Breille

7. Whose visage appears before King Henri Christophe in Part Three: Chapter V?
(a) Améthyste’s
(b) Corneille Breille’s
(c) Bouckman’s
(d) Mlle. Floridor’s

8. What is mixed with the mortar to protect the fortress in Part Three: Chapter III?
(a) Bull's blood
(b) Clam shells
(c) Rabbit hair
(d) Sea water

9. What is the title of Part Three: Chapter VI?
(a) The Reckoning
(b) Dagon Inside the Ark
(c) Ultima Ratio Regum
(d) Santiago de Cuba

10. What does Pauline Bonaparte order to begin construction after her arrival on the island in Part Two: Chapter VI?
(a) A stable
(b) A church
(c) A swimming pool
(d) A statue

11. In Part Three: Chapter VII, the released prisoners talk of beheading the queen, as who was beheaded in the French Revolution?
(a) King Henry VIII
(b) King Charles II
(c) Marie Antoinette
(d) Napoleon Bonaparte

12. For how many years does the narrator say every person in the North has been enslaved to build the fortress in Part Three: Chapter III?
(a) 4
(b) 1
(c) 7
(d) 12

13. How much time has passed with King Henri Christophe in bed in the beginning of Part Three: Chapter VI?
(a) 1 week
(b) 5 weeks
(c) 2 weeks
(d) 1 month

14. Where does Pauline depart for after her husband’s death in Part Two?
(a) Paris, France
(b) Sydney, Australia
(c) Moscow, Russia
(d) Los Angeles, California

15. Why did the white slave owners rarely kill their slaves, according to the narrator in Part Three: Chapter III?
(a) They were afraid of the slaves
(b) They were Christians
(c) They loved their slaves
(d) They were worth money

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the ghostly apparition that appears to King Henri Christophe do after it appears?

2. Who is described as the Lord of the Roads in Part Three: Chapter I?

3. Part Four: Chapter I is titled “The Night of the” what?

4. M. Lenormand de Mézy spends his time doing what in Cuba in Part Two: Chapter V?

5. The statue of Venus of Canova was modeled by whom, according to the narrator in Part Four: Chapter I?

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