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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Narcisse's body build?
(a) Extremely obese.
(b) Willowy.
(c) Slender.
(d) Pudgy.

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

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

4. How does Palmire communicate?
(a) With gestures.
(b) Psychically.
(c) Just like everyone else.
(d) Writing.

5. To whom is Eugene Daurat related?
(a) No one else who appears in the novel.
(b) Elisabeth.
(c) Gerasime.
(d) The Derbannes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Suzette do to Madame Derbanne's favorite roses the next morning after the opening of Cane River?

2. In Chapter 4, with whom does Eugene move in?

3. What is the year at the opening to Chapter 2?

4. What does Elisabeth know about Suzette and Nicholas in Chapter 2?

5. What relation is Doralise Derbanne to Suzette?

(see the answer key)

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