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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Philomene say Emily is doing with Narcisse when Emily is 10?
(a) Traveling to New York.
(b) Riding a train.
(c) Emily is nursing Narcisse.
(d) Reading to him.

2. Why doesn't Narcisse join the regular army?
(a) He is blind in one eye.
(b) He believes slaves should be set free.
(c) He thinks the South will win in the first month of war.
(d) He says he is needed to run the plantation.

3. Where had Joseph been during the days of slavery?
(a) Alabama.
(b) California.
(c) France.
(d) Cuba.

4. With what mentality does Emily think the older women in her family live?
(a) Submissive.
(b) Rebellious.
(c) Resentment.
(d) Forgiveness.

5. What does Philomene think a jealous God might do?
(a) Nothing because she thinks God is not jealous of slaves.
(b) Take away her happiness.
(c) Take Clement in trade for her newborns.
(d) Kill her daughters also.

6. What is wrong with Ferrier?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Head injury.
(c) Snake bite.
(d) Broken collar bone.

7. Why does Suzette return to Oreline's homestead?
(a) The family she went to cannot afford to keep her.
(b) To be at Clement's burial.
(c) To help care for Philomene.
(d) To help Oreline with the birth of her newest child.

8. Who are Joseph and Josephine?
(a) Philamone's second set of twins.
(b) Oreline's twin cousins.
(c) Oreline's just-born set of twins from her marriage with Valery.
(d) Oreline's children from her first marriage.

9. Upon whose largesse does Philomene say her family depends?
(a) Eugene.
(b) Justice.
(c) Narcisse.
(d) Oreline.

10. How do Augustine's letters change over a six-month period?
(a) From saying he is always tired to saying he is fit.
(b) From hopeful to pessimistic.
(c) From homesick to hardened.
(d) From glorious descriptions to bitter.

11. How old is Emily when Valery leaves to join the war effort?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

12. For what is Oreline unprepared?
(a) The new baby about to be born.
(b) Her husband's death.
(c) The harvest season.
(d) The torrential rains.

13. What is the significance of the dinner for Emily and her guest?
(a) It is Emily's birthday.
(b) It signifies that she and her guest are in an official relationship.
(c) It is Suzette's birthday.
(d) It is the anniversary of the ending of the civil war.

14. Why is Joseph's barn burned?
(a) Because Joseph is living with Emily.
(b) Because Joseph plans to marry Emily.
(c) Because the pigs have a disease.
(d) The cows have hoof and mouth.

15. What do Joseph's cousins assume when they come to live with him and Emily?
(a) That Emily has bewitched Joseph
(b) That Emily's family are all dead.
(c) That Joseph is looking for a wife.
(d) That Emily is their servant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Philomene stop doing at the end of Chapter 17?

2. With whom does Narcisse say Suzette can be placed?

3. Why does Joseph move Emily to a house that is isolated on a tract of land?

4. What does Emily admit concerning Elisabeth?

5. What do Narcisse and Oreline wait to tell Philomene until she is better?

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