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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the fate of Coulibri Estate?
(a) It is burned down by a mob of angry former slaves.
(b) It is given to the former slaves as compensation.
(c) It is abandoned and falls into ruin.
(d) It is where the family lives for many years.

2. Part One is told from whose point of view?
(a) Antoinette's.
(b) Annette's.
(c) Aunt Cora's.
(d) Christophine's.

3. What does Mr. Mason say the servants can smell?
(a) The hurricane winds as they approach the island.
(b) The new flowers in the garden.
(c) The rum on his wife's breath.
(d) Money.

4. What significant event occurs just before the story begins?
(a) There is a slave uprising in Spanish Town.
(b) England and France are at war over the ownership of the West Indies.
(c) Jamaica is a former colony that wins its independence from England.
(d) The slaves are emancipated.

5. How many times has Antoinette had the dream when she describes it so vividly in Part One?
(a) Three times.
(b) This is the second time.
(c) She does not say.
(d) This is the first time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where and what is Spanish Town?

2. Where is Aunt Cora returning from?

3. Who is Christophine?

4. How does Antoinette feel about the garden?

5. What does Antoinette call her step-father one night?

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