View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the word the natives use for Callum to mean white man?
(a) Galoni.
(b) Obroni.
(c) Matoni.
(d) Jaboni.

2. Who is the boss of the slave managers at the plantation Charlotte works on?
(a) Mr. Henley.
(b) Mr. Rish.
(c) Mr. Cooper.
(d) Mr. Harris.

3. Where is Callum Aragon from?
(a) France.
(b) Britain.
(c) Spain.
(d) America.

4. What gift does Gbessa seem to have that allows her to get through her exile?
(a) She can fly.
(b) She can shape-shift.
(c) She can sing beautifully.
(d) She cannot seem to die.

5. Who kills ol' Ma Nyanpoo?
(a) Her husband.
(b) The spirit of a cat she has killed.
(c) The village medicine man.
(d) The lake demon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Gbessa's fellow villagers think she is?

2. What is one punishment Callum visits upon Nanni when he mistreats her?

3. Where does Missus Emerson's daughter live now that she is married?

4. What does Dey show Charlotte in the cemetery?

5. What does Charlotte call her son?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Khati and Gbessa treated as outcasts in Lai?

2. What is Gbessa's fate once she reaches a certain age of adolescence?

3. What lie does Callum Aragon tell Nanni and Norman for many years?

4. Why is Dey brought to the Emerson plantation?

5. Why is Mistress Emerson so fixated on the skin color of June Dey?

6. What is unusual about the circumstances of June Dey's birth?

7. What likely becomes of Callum after he searches in the mountains for Nanni and Norman?

8. How does Gbessa survive her exile in the woods?

9. What do the Lai villagers call Gbessa?

10. What does Gbessa encounter in the road in Part I that nearly kills her?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 571 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample