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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Francoise worry about concerning Oreline?
(a) That she will join a convent as she has threatened.
(b) That she will never marry.
(c) That she will never have children.
(d) That she will marry Eugene.

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

3. With whom is Philomene in love in Chapter 8?
(a) Eugene.
(b) Clement.
(c) Safir.
(d) Nicholas.

4. What does Clement lose sight of when he gets to shore?
(a) His brother.
(b) Some barrels of oil.
(c) The boat.
(d) The chair.

5. Who is Josephina?
(a) Narcisse's sister.
(b) Oreline's daughter.
(c) Oreline's sister-in-law.
(d) Suzette's new daughter.

6. Who is Gerant's father?
(a) No one knows.
(b) Gerasime.
(c) Monsieur Derbanne.
(d) Eugene.

7. What does Suzette say about the relationship between Doralise and Philippe?
(a) It is lopsided.
(b) It is blissful.
(c) It is romantic.
(d) It is deteriorating.

8. Following Francoise’s death, who does Doralise promise to try to help?
(a) Palmire.
(b) Philomene.
(c) Gerasime.
(d) Gerant.

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

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

11. How much time has passed in Chapter 7 since Chapter 6?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 15 years.

12. What is Clement preparing to do in Chapter 13?
(a) Visit Philomene.
(b) Take cotton to the market.
(c) Sneak out to see a horse race.
(d) ame a new stallion.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What relation is Doralise Derbanne to Suzette?

2. Who does Oreline buy?

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

4. What is Suzette about to do at the opening to Chapter 2?

5. Why does Joseph say he wants to buy Clement?

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