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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 response to the increasingly unstable conditions in Chapter 22?
(a) He sells more slaves.
(b) He decides to enlist.
(c) He begins to hoard food and money.
(d) He asks Oreline to marry him.

2. What does Joseph ask Philomene to give him?
(a) The painting of Emily.
(b) Some of their land to farm.
(c) Advice.
(d) One year to become a better husband.

3. What is the white community grumbling about according to Narcisse, Antoine and Joseph Ferrier?
(a) That Joseph sent his cousins away.
(b) That Joseph is openly living with Emily.
(c) That Joseph has hired a negro bookkeeper.
(d) That Joseph tries to pass his children off as all white.

4. What is wrong with Ferrier?
(a) Snake bite.
(b) Head injury.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Broken collar bone.

5. Why does Bet come into the store one day to talk to Emily?
(a) Philomene sends Bet there to cheer up Emily.
(b) Bet is bored at home.
(c) Emily asks her to help her with a display.
(d) Bet likes one of the clerks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Philomene say about Emily in Chapter 21?

2. What happens to Philomene when she is ill?

3. For what is Oreline unprepared?

4. What does Philomene feel as she makes a realization about Clement in Chapter 16?

5. What is one fact that Bet reminds Emily of about Narcisse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Philomene name her daughter by Narcisse, and what does she say about the daughter?

2. What does Emily admit to Bet about Emily's feelings concerning Elisabeth?

3. How do Ferrier's caregivers know he is close to dying of yellow fever in Chapter 17?

4. In Chapter 25, what does Yellow John say about Clement's fate?

5. What does Narcisse tell Oreline has to be done after Ferrier's death concerning the slaves and what does she decide about Clement?

6. What does Narcisse say he worries about concerning Emily?

7. Who becomes ill in Chapter 18, and who takes care of them?

8. Describe Elisabeth's encounter with a census taker.

9. To whom is Gerant married, and what is his stipulation about working with the family?

10. What is an example of how the traditional roles on Oreline's farm become skewed?

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