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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Armand want Désirée to do?
(a) Find out if someone in her ancestry is negro.
(b) Leave.
(c) Stay with him no matter what.
(d) Swear to the local priest that she is white.

2. Why is Louise feeling relieved?
(a) Because her father survives the train accident.
(b) She is not relieved.
(c) Because her brother survives the accident.
(d) Because she is a free woman.

3. What is the reason Cazeau tells his wife that he married her?
(a) Because he loves her.
(b) For her political connections.
(c) For her money.
(d) His father forced him to do so.

4. Where does Athénaïse go when she leaves Cazeau a second time?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Lafayette.
(d) Charleston.

5. Of what is Cazeau reminded when he goes to fetch his wife?
(a) A saying his mother told him on his wedding day.
(b) A slave his father once had to retrieve.
(c) The way his friends laughed when he told them who he planned to marry.
(d) Going to market.

6. Who does Evariste save?
(a) Martinette.
(b) Mr. Sublet.
(c) Mr. Sublet's son.
(d) No one.

7. What does Elodie not tell Gabriel?
(a) That Everson comes to her and he is not dead.
(b) That Everson talks to the sheriff.
(c) That she robs Everson.
(d) That a knife is in his other coat.

8. Who does Calixta allow to shelter in her home?
(a) A hobo.
(b) Bobinôt.
(c) Alcée Laballière.
(d) Gouvernail.

9. Who adopts Désirée?
(a) Her father's parents.
(b) No one.
(c) Her mother's older sister and her husband.
(d) The Valmondé family.

10. Who has just been killed in a railroad accident?
(a) Louise.
(b) Josephine.
(c) Brently.
(d) No one.

11. Why does Mrs. Baroda tell her husband she is going to visit some relatives?
(a) To help with the cotton picking.
(b) One of them is ill.
(c) There is a family wedding.
(d) To avoid being around Gouvernail.

12. Why is Elizabeth fired from her job?
(a) Because she is late almost every day.
(b) Because she steals from her employer.
(c) Because she is surly.
(d) For doing unauthorized actions.

13. What is one thing Mrs. Sommers buys at the store with her newly-acquired money?
(a) Chocolate for the children.
(b) Clothes for the children.
(c) Silk stockings.
(d) A stack of books.

14. How much advance payment does Sublet give the 'Cadian man?
(a) 20 gold pieces.
(b) Nothing.
(c) 2 silver dollars.
(d) 10 silver dollars.

15. What is Louise imagining in her room?
(a) What her husband is doing in heaven.
(b) A future of endless possibilities.
(c) What her husband is doing in hell.
(d) How her brother must have suffered before dying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Calixta's response to Bobinôt's question?

2. What does the postcard say that Elizabeth Stock read?

3. What do Calixta and Alcée do?

4. What are Elodie and Gabriel playing?

5. Who is Gouvernail?

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