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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. What does Elisabeth know about Suzette and Nicholas in Chapter 2?
(a) They have secretly decided to marry.
(b) They have been together a few times.
(c) Suzette is enamored of Nicholas.
(d) Nicholas plans to take Suzette to freedom.

2. How does Philomene communicate with Gerant in Chapter 9?
(a) They talk to each other in church on Sundays.
(b) They are unable to communicate.
(c) Doralise carries notes back and forth.
(d) Suzette carries notes back and forth.

3. What request does Oreline refuse that Suzette asks of her in Chapter 1?
(a) To teach her to read.
(b) To help her learn to write.
(c) To help her escape.
(d) To help her meet with a young man on a neighboring plantation.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Oreline buy?

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

3. What does Eugene Daurat do that many of his family do not?

4. What does Philomene do when Clement arrives?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Suzette steal some eggs and take them to Palmire?

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

5. How does Philomene feel about Narcisse's marriage?

6. What do Garasime and Elisabeth say about the slave auction?

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

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

9. Why does Francoise arrange a marriage for Oreline?

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

(see the answer keys)

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