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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. Who is often loaned to other plantation to provide music?
(a) Oreline.
(b) Gerasime.
(c) Elisabeth.
(d) Suzette.

2. Why does Clement throw a chair out of the boat?
(a) To get the chair to shore.
(b) To test the current.
(c) To lighten the boat.
(d) To hold on to and float.

3. What does Philomene ask Suzette concerning Narcisse?
(a) If Narcisse is a kind man.
(b) If Narcisse is her brother.
(c) If Philomene can do anything if Narcisse tries to rape her.
(d) If Narcisse was Francois' lover.

4. What does Suzette say is all Eugene has done for her?
(a) Given her light-skinned children.
(b) Given her freedom upon his death.
(c) Taught her to read and write.
(d) Allowed her to keep being a house slave.

5. Why does Oreline refuse Suzette's request in Chapter 1?
(a) She is mean hearted
(b) She is afraid of being sold.
(c) She does not know how to write either.
(d) She is unwilling to hide anything from her aunt and uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Madame Derbanne just done to Suzette as the book opens?

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

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

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

5. How does Palmire communicate?

Short Essay Questions

1. With whom is Suzette enamored, but what is her mother's response to that?

2. What remark does Suzette make concerning Doralise's relationship with Eugene?

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

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

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

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

7. What does Suzette immediately do when Francoise dies?

8. What does Narcisse ask Tessier concerning Clement?

9. What does Suzette pretend regarding Francoise, but what are Suzette's real feelings?

10. What does Suzette ask Doralise concerning Gerant, and what is Doralise's reply?

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