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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 is Narcisse's body build?
(a) Extremely obese.
(b) Willowy.
(c) Slender.
(d) Pudgy.

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

3. Who is Gerant's father?
(a) Monsieur Derbanne.
(b) No one knows.
(c) Gerasime.
(d) Eugene.

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

5. Upon how many different plantations do Suzette's family members live in Chapter 9?
(a) 12.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, who does Philomene glimpse as missing from the family in the future?

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

3. What does Suzette pretend in front of Francoise in Chapter 7?

4. Why do the lives of the slaves improve in the time leading up to their being sold?

5. How does Clement earn extra money?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Elisabeth urge Philomene to tell Clement?

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

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

4. What does Narcisse ask Tessier concerning Clement?

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

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

7. Of what is Philomene aware concerning her emerging womanhood?

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

9. What does Suzette immediately do when Francoise dies?

10. Of whom does Eugene Daurat remind Suzette?

(see the answer keys)

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