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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Philomene when she is ill?
(a) She forgives Oreline.
(b) She goes blind.
(c) She puts a curse on Oreline.
(d) She has a vision.

2. What do Narcisse and Oreline wait to tell Philomene until she is better?
(a) That Clement has drowned.
(b) That Bet is dead but Thany has recovered.
(c) That Oreline's son is dead.
(d) That both twins have died.

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

4. Who does Jacques Tessier buy?
(a) No one.
(b) Clement and his mother.
(c) Gerant and Philomene.
(d) Palmire and Suzette.

5. Why do the lives of the slaves improve in the time leading up to their being sold?
(a) The cruel overseer has been sold.
(b) They want the slaves to look good for the sale.
(c) Oreline demands that the overseer treat them better.
(d) A new overseer has been hired.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Narcisse slightly in awe of Philomene?

2. What is Clement planning to deliver to Narcisse on his trip in Chapter 13?

3. Why does Clement throw a chair out of the boat?

4. What does Eugene Daurat do that many of his family do not?

5. Who does Madame Derbanne chastise at the beginning of the book?

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