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

2. What does Clement lose sight of when he gets to shore?
(a) The chair.
(b) His brother.
(c) The boat.
(d) Some barrels of oil.

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

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

5. Of what does Narcisse's wife die?
(a) In childbirth.
(b) Cholera.
(c) T.B.
(d) Rabies.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, with whom does Eugene move in?

2. Where does Clement live in Chapter 13?

3. In Chapter 8, what do Gerasime and Elisabeth say they will not do?

4. What request does Oreline refuse that Suzette asks of her in Chapter 1?

5. What does Oreline tell Suzette when Oreline arrives on account of Francoise's death?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Elisabeth urge Philomene to tell Clement?

3. Why does Francoise arrange a marriage for Oreline?

4. What is Suzette's job in the household, and how does that affect her life?

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

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

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

8. Who is Suzette's father, and what does he do?

9. How does Elisabeth treat Suzette after Suzette gives birth to Gerant?

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

(see the answer keys)

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