Wide Sargasso Sea | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Part 1

1. What significant event occurs just before the story begins?

2. Who owns Coulibri Estate at the beginning of the story?

3. Why do Tia and Antoinette cease to be friends?

4. In Part 1, why is Aunt Cora concerned about the family just after Antoinette's mother remarried?

5. What is the importance of the green parrot, Coco?

6. What is a glacis?

7. Where and what is Spanish Town?

8. What is wrong with Pierre as a child?

9. How does Antoinette feel about the garden?

10. Who is Christophine?

11. Who are Godfrey and Sass?

12. What is Mrs. Cosway's situation at the beginning of the story?