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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Garasime say is attached to the slaves after the assessors come?
(a) A scar.
(b) A taint.
(c) A price.
(d) A future.

2. What upsets Oreline about her aunt's actions to get money?
(a) That she is flirting with a man of dubious reputation.
(b) That she won't sell some of the fallow acres.
(c) That she sold Palmire's children.
(d) That she is trying to get Oreline to marry a wealthy gambler.

3. What does the overseer recommend in Chapter 6 in order for Francoise to get some needed cash?
(a) Sell some slaves.
(b) Rotate among more crops.
(c) Find a wealthy man to marry.
(d) Plant cotton in more of the acreage.

4. With what was Philomene afraid Narcisse would interfere?
(a) Being freed.
(b) Being sold to Clement's owner.
(c) What she names her new daughter.
(d) Marrying Clement.

5. Who does Madame Derbanne chastise at the beginning of the book?
(a) Elisabeth.
(b) Narcisse.
(c) Monsieur Derbanne.
(d) Gerasime.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Gerant's father?

2. What does Suzette say about Doralise when talking to Philomene?

3. What role is difficult for Eugene in Chapter 9?

4. What relation is Doralise Derbanne to Suzette?

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

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