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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 location does Tituba long for?
(a) Boston.
(b) New York.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Barbados.

2. At sunrise, what does Tituba sacrifice?
(a) A cat.
(b) A cow.
(c) A horse.
(d) A sheep.

3. What does Maryse Conde claim to sense strongly, which helped her to write this book?
(a) Tituba's personality.
(b) Pieces of dialogue Tituba had with others.
(c) Documents about Tituba's faith.
(d) Tituba's voice.

4. What relationship do Tituba and Elizabeth begin to have?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Enemies.
(c) Strangers.
(d) Confidantes.

5. Who did Yaya claim to communicate with?
(a) Dead people.
(b) Abena.
(c) People on other islands.
(d) Her ancestors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Tituba that all blacks face misfortune?

2. What does Tituba decide she wants to be a source of?

3. What does Tituba fear?

4. What does the activist in the Forward say the text is a metaphor for?

5. What happens to Tituba on the ship to America?

Short Essay Questions

1. What roles do Ann Putnam and Elizabeth Proctor play in Tituba's life?

2. How does Conde juxtapose Parris and Satan?

3. How does Tituba tend to feel about other women?

4. Does Tituba forgive the Parris family? Why or why not?

5. Why does Benjamin want Tituba to stay with him?

6. What foreshadowing occurs in Chapters 1 and 2?

7. How does Tituba describe Abigail?

8. Why does Tituba intentionally miscarry her child?

9. How are derogatory words used to describe Tituba significant? Is it appropriate for Conde to include these racial slurs in the book?

10. What role do children play in Tituba's life?

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