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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Elisabeth's job at the plantation?
(a) Scribe.
(b) Tailor.
(c) Accountant.
(d) Cook.

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

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

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

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

8. What role is difficult for Eugene in Chapter 9?
(a) Executor of Rosedew.
(b) Executioner for two slaves who tried to escape.
(c) Father of Philomene.
(d) Slave trader.

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

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

11. Why does Suzette send word to the slave quarters the minute Francoise dies?
(a) So they can prepare for any consequences of Francoise's death.
(b) So they can don black armbands.
(c) So they can quit working.
(d) So they can put in motion their plans to escape.

12. How does Philomene communicate with Gerant in Chapter 9?
(a) They talk to each other in church on Sundays.
(b) Doralise carries notes back and forth.
(c) Suzette carries notes back and forth.
(d) They are unable to communicate.

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

14. Who buys Gerant?
(a) Jacques.
(b) Eugene.
(c) Oreline.
(d) No one wants him.

15. 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 is trying to get Oreline to marry a wealthy gambler.
(c) That she sold Palmire's children.
(d) That she won't sell some of the fallow acres.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Suzette stop to check on Gerasime in Chapter 7?

3. What do Clement and Philomene have permission to do?

4. Who goes to Elisabeth after having a "glimpsing"?

5. Why do the lives of the slaves improve in the time leading up to their being sold?

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