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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Clement planning to deliver to Narcisse on his trip in Chapter 13?
(a) Piglets.
(b) Coon skins.
(c) Bear skins.
(d) Chickens.

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

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

4. What has Madame Derbanne just done to Suzette as the book opens?
(a) Whipped her.
(b) Bandaged a wound.
(c) Cut her hair.
(d) Slapped her.

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

6. What is Suzette's relationship to Palmire and Apphia?
(a) Cousins.
(b) She does not know either of them.
(c) Just friends.
(d) Siblings.

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

8. Why does Tessier tell Clement to hurry?
(a) He needs him to shoe some horses.
(b) He wants him back before dark.
(c) There looks to be storms coming in.
(d) He needs him to fix a wagon wheel.

9. What does Narcisse seem indifferent about when Clement comes and talks to him?
(a) The loss of the boat.
(b) Clement's marriage to Philomene.
(c) The loss of the bear skins.
(d) His best horse has foundered.

10. Why does Suzette stop to check on Gerasime in Chapter 7?
(a) He has cancer.
(b) She has the flu.
(c) He was whipped by the overseer.
(d) He fell off the wagon and broke his leg.

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

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

13. Who goes to Elisabeth after having a "glimpsing"?
(a) Philomene.
(b) Suzette.
(c) Palmire.
(d) Gerant.

14. What does Clement almost get caught in while on the river?
(a) A whirlpool.
(b) A sand bar.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A log jam.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Clement live in Chapter 13?

2. Who does Oreline buy?

3. What is returned to Tessier that keeps him from selling Clement to Narcisse?

4. What does Suzette pretend in front of Francoise in Chapter 7?

5. Who is Gerant's father?

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