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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 notice when she is telling the census taker about the women of the household?
(a) He does not believe her.
(b) He is not interested in the women.
(c) He is derisive of former slaves.
(d) He wants a lot of information about them.

2. What does Philomene say about Emily in Chapter 21?
(a) She must never work in the fields.
(b) She will become a teacher.
(c) She must not know who her father is.
(d) She will be free someday.

3. What is Valery Houbre's occupation?
(a) School teacher.
(b) Preacher.
(c) Soldier.
(d) Blacksmith.

4. What do Narcisse and Oreline wait to tell Philomene until she is better?
(a) That Oreline's son is dead.
(b) That Clement has drowned.
(c) That both twins have died.
(d) That Bet is dead but Thany has recovered.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes it clear that the situation in the South is becoming serious at the opening of Chapter 22?

2. What causes Clement to drown?

3. What does Philomene want Joseph to do in Chapter 33?

4. What is the significance of Valery's age regarding the war?

5. What do Joseph's cousins assume when they come to live with him and Emily?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Philomene think one day in Chapter 16 when she sees Clement holding one of their daughters?

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

3. What does Philomene ask Narcisse to do concerning Emily?

4. What do Narcisse, Antoine Morat and Joseph Ferrier who come to visit Joseph tell him?

5. Why does Philomene send Bet to Joseph's store where Emily is working?

6. What is the argument between Oreline and Philomene about who owes whom in Chapter 24?

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

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

9. Why does Narcisse begin to hoard money and food?

10. How does Philomene feel about the lives of her family?

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