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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Antoinette resent the nuns' cheerful faces?
(a) She is forced to stay with them.
(b) She believes they are safe.
(c) They are mocking her.
(d) They are only nice when visitors are there.

2. Immediately following Antoinette's description of her dream, what does the nun tell Antoinette to do after they have talked?
(a) Stay awake for the rest of the night.
(b) Think happy thoughts.
(c) Go back to bed.
(d) Pray.

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

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

5. Where does Antoinette go soon after she leaves Coulibri Estate?
(a) A school for Creole girls in Spanish Town.
(b) She moves to Trinidad with a servant.
(c) She is sent to Dominca to attend school.
(d) She moves to England with her aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Tia and Antoinette cease to be friends?

2. How long has Annette been a widow?

3. What does Antoinette remember when she is speaking with the nun after her dream?

4. What does Antoinette wear in her dream?

5. Who is Antoinette following in her dream?

(see the answer key)

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