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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What would happen if Suzette and Nicholas marry?
(a) Nicholas would automatically become a slave.
(b) Any children they have would be considered slaves.
(c) Nicholas would be sold.
(d) Suzette would be sold to the plantation where Nicholas lives.

3. What is the year at the opening of Cane River?
(a) 1801.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1834.

4. To whom is Suzette nursemaid?
(a) Oreline.
(b) No one.
(c) Gerasime.
(d) Narcisse.

5. Why is Narcisse slightly in awe of Philomene?
(a) Her glimpses.
(b) Her ability to wrap her father around her finger.
(c) Her beauty.
(d) Her intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Clement lose sight of when he gets to shore?

2. Why is Philomene glad Narcisse has remarried?

3. How does Philomene communicate with Gerant in Chapter 9?

4. With whom is Philomene in love in Chapter 8?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Philomene say to Clement in Chapter 12 when he tells her he traveled by boat to visit her?

2. What does Philomene say about her own light skin?

3. What does Narcisse ask Tessier concerning Clement?

4. What does Joseph Ferrier agree to do after Suzette talks to Oreline in Chapter 14?

5. What present is mentioned in Chapter 13 that Clement is making for Philomene?

6. What does Oreline say upon learning of Suzette's pregnancy, and what is Suzette's response?

7. What does Suzette say about her relationship to Eugene?

8. What does Suzette ask Oreline to do, and what is Oreline's response?

9. What does Suzette say about her family after the slave auction?

10. What does the overseer announce to Francoise one day?

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