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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) Swear to the local priest that she is white.
(c) Leave.
(d) Stay with him no matter what.

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

3. Where did Elizabeth Stock work?
(a) She is a baker's helper.
(b) At the post office in Stonelift.
(c) She works at the local bank.
(d) She is unemployed.

4. What frightens Calixta?
(a) Lightening strikes the house.
(b) The hobo starts acting strange.
(c) Bobinôt is late.
(d) Lightning striking a tree.

5. What does Mrs. Sommers wish as she is riding home on the bus?
(a) That she had bought more chocolate for the children.
(b) That the ride would never end.
(c) That her husband would return to her.
(d) That her children would disappear.

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

7. What does the postcard say that Elizabeth Stock read?
(a) It is about an urgent meeting the next day.
(b) It has something written in code that she cannot read.
(c) It predicts a change in the economic future.
(d) It is about the weather in Greece.

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

9. How does Louise die?
(a) She does not die.
(b) Her husband kills her when he learns she celebrated his passing.
(c) As a passenger in the train wreck.
(d) A heart attack.

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

11. Who is the successful planter?
(a) Alcée Laballière
(b) Calixta.
(c) Bobinôt.
(d) Clarisse.

12. What does Aunt Dicey say Sublet will do to the 'Cadian man?
(a) Make him famous.
(b) Humiliate him.
(c) Torture him.
(d) Kill him.

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

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

15. Where does Mrs. Sommers go after the store?
(a) To a job interview.
(b) To her parents' home to borrow money.
(c) To see her lawyer.
(d) A fancy restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Alcée flirt with at the ball?

2. Where are Bobinôt and his son, four-year-old Bibi, waiting out a storm?

3. Where does Mr. Brightman go for a meeting?

4. Who unnerves Mrs. Baroda?

5. Why does Désirée's husband think she is not white?

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