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

2. What does Francoise worry about concerning Oreline?
(a) That she will never have children.
(b) That she will join a convent as she has threatened.
(c) That she will never marry.
(d) That she will marry Eugene.

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

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

5. Who are Thany and Bet?
(a) Philomene and Clement's twin children.
(b) Two new field slaves at Rosedew.
(c) Josephina's twin children.
(d) Narcisse's new children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Oreline buy?

2. With what was Philomene afraid Narcisse would interfere?

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

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

5. What relation is Doralise Derbanne to Suzette?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Elisabeth urge Philomene to tell Clement?

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

3. What do the slaves receive for Christmas?

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

5. What does Narcisse ask Tessier concerning Clement?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Suzette immediately do when Francoise dies?

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