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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Christophine go to live?
(a) Back to Coulibri.
(b) To Trinidad.
(c) With Mr. Mason.
(d) With her son.

2. What else does Antoinette say she dreams in Part One?
(a) That she has a dismal future in store.
(b) That she is entering a beautiful forest.
(c) That her mother comes to take her home.
(d) That she is in hell.

3. What type of stories are read to the school girls when they do their needle work?
(a) History of the British Empire.
(b) The lives of saints.
(c) How to behave like ladies.
(d) Stories of Queen Victoria.

4. How long after they were married do the Mason's start having trouble?
(a) After their honeymoon.
(b) When the new servants quit.
(c) Over a year.
(d) Less than a month.

5. What does Antoinette pray for?
(a) Death.
(b) Happiness.
(c) A husband.
(d) Her mother to get well.

6. Who is Christophine?
(a) The estate owner's best friend.
(b) A former slave who has stayed on as a servant.
(c) A servant who lives in Spanish Town.
(d) A Creole woman related to the estate owner.

7. What does Antoinette recognize about her mother when she first goes to visit her after moving from Coulibri Estate?
(a) Her eyes.
(b) Her beautiful smile.
(c) Her hair and dress.
(d) The perfume she wears.

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

9. Where is Antoinette walking towards in her dream?
(a) Couliburi Estate.
(b) A church.
(c) A forest.
(d) The beach.

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

11. What is the importance of the green parrot, Coco?
(a) The parrote belongs to one of the family servants.
(b) The parrot is a favorite childhood pet of Antoinette's.
(c) The parrot dies in front of the family, which is very bad luck in Jamaica.
(d) The parrot squawks loudly to warn the family a fire broke out in the mansion.

12. In the story, how do the newly freed slaves behave towards their former white owners?
(a) They don't care one way or the other about their former owners.
(b) They rebel and kill many of the former slaveowners.
(c) They are discontent and some work grudginly for their former owners.
(d) They continue to work happily for their former owners.

13. What kind of food do the Mason's eat?
(a) Rich, delicioius, spicey food.
(b) Traditional Jamaican food.
(c) Mostly French food.
(d) English food.

14. How does Antoinette feel about the convent?
(a) It is sad and depressing.
(b) It is a prison.
(c) It is her refuge.
(d) It makes her happy.

15. What is Mrs. Cosway's situation at the beginning of the story?
(a) She is moving to England with her children.
(b) She is the loving and caring mother of two children.
(c) She is an important part of Spanish Town society.
(d) She is a poor widow of five years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Myra always look?

2. How does Antoinette feel about the garden?

3. What does Antoinette wear in her dream?

4. What does Antoinette remember that her mother hated?

5. What is the fate of Coulibri Estate?

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