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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Suzette pretend in front of Francoise in Chapter 7?
(a) That Suzette cares what happens to Francoise.
(b) That Suzette no longer sees Eugene.
(c) That Suzette is happy.
(d) That Suzette does not want to be freed.

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

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

8. Who does Oreline buy?
(a) Philomene and Palmire.
(b) Suzette, Philomene and Palmire.
(c) Gerant and Suzette.
(d) Just Suzette.

9. 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 was kicked by the foundered horse.
(d) He hit rocks when swimming to shore.

10. Why does Joseph say he wants to buy Clement?
(a) To unite him with Philomene.
(b) To make him pay for the lost coon skins.
(c) He is an honest slave.
(d) For his blacksmith skills.

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

12. Who does Jacques Tessier buy?
(a) No one.
(b) Clement and his mother.
(c) Gerant and Philomene.
(d) Palmire and Suzette.

13. What does Suzette say is all Eugene has done for her?
(a) Given her light-skinned children.
(b) Given her freedom upon his death.
(c) Allowed her to keep being a house slave.
(d) Taught her to read and write.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What role is difficult for Eugene in Chapter 9?

2. What gift has Clement been making in Chapter 13?

3. Why does Oreline refuse Suzette's request in Chapter 1?

4. What is Clement preparing to do in Chapter 13?

5. What does Suzette slip out to the slave quarters to give Palmire in Chapter 7?

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