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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 Philomene realize about Suzette in Chapter 9?
(a) She is unhappy.
(b) She is pregnant again.
(c) She is very ill.
(d) She is planning to escape to the North.

2. What is Suzette about to do at the opening to Chapter 2?
(a) Run away.
(b) Be confirmed.
(c) Steal a few coins.
(d) Meet a boy on a neighboring plantation.

3. How does Clement earn extra money?
(a) As a blacksmith.
(b) Making bows.
(c) Selling his flutes.
(d) Playing the fiddle at dances.

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

5. In Chapter 10, who does Philomene glimpse as missing from the family in the future?
(a) Gerant.
(b) Gerasime and Gerant.
(c) Gerasime and Palmire.
(d) Elisabeth and Palmire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What relation is Doralise Derbanne to Suzette?

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

3. What does Suzette think when she is ill in Chapter 4?

4. What is Narcisse's body build?

5. Of what does Narcisse's wife die?

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