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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What about Philomene is dangerous for her in Chapter 11?
(a) Her emerging womanhood.
(b) Her desire for freedom.
(c) Her ability to read.
(d) Her outspoken nature.

2. What does Philomene glimpse as the cause of Clement's death?
(a) Broken neck.
(b) Drowning.
(c) Old age.
(d) Gunshot.

3. What would happen if Suzette and Nicholas marry?
(a) Any children they have would be considered slaves.
(b) Nicholas would automatically become a slave.
(c) Nicholas would be sold.
(d) Suzette would be sold to the plantation where Nicholas lives.

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

5. What gift has Clement been making in Chapter 13?
(a) A cradle.
(b) A rocking horse.
(c) A rocking chair.
(d) A snuff box.

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

7. What does Philomene ask Suzette concerning Narcisse?
(a) If Philomene can do anything if Narcisse tries to rape her.
(b) If Narcisse is a kind man.
(c) If Narcisse was Francois' lover.
(d) If Narcisse is her brother.

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

9. What is returned to Tessier that keeps him from selling Clement to Narcisse?
(a) The boat and furs.
(b) A satchel of money.
(c) The barrels of oil.
(d) Three escaped slaves.

10. Why is Clement bruising by the time he gets to Philomene in Chapter 15?
(a) He fell into a bear hole.
(b) Narcisse beat him.
(c) He hit rocks when swimming to shore.
(d) He was kicked by the foundered horse.

11. What relation is Narcisse to Oreline?
(a) Cousins.
(b) Siblings.
(c) Mother and daughter.
(d) Aunt and niece.

12. What relation is Doralise Derbanne to Suzette?
(a) Grandmother.
(b) Friend.
(c) Godmother.
(d) Aunt.

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

14. What do Clement and Philomene have permission to do?
(a) Visit each other every other Sunday.
(b) Trade plantations.
(c) Marry.
(d) Go to school in the evenings.

15. What does Suzette say about Doralise when talking to Philomene?
(a) Doralise is pregnant.
(b) Doralise is generous.
(c) Doralise is sad.
(d) Doralise manipulates situations to her benefit only.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the year at the opening of Cane River?

2. Who is Josephina?

3. With what was Philomene afraid Narcisse would interfere?

4. What does Philomene realize about Suzette in Chapter 9?

5. Who does Jacques Tessier buy?

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