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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 a poor widow of five years.
(d) She is an important part of Spanish Town society.

2. Who owns Coulibri Estate at the beginning of the story?
(a) Antoinette Cosway.
(b) The Mason family.
(c) Annette Cosway.
(d) Mr. Rochester.

3. How does Antoinette describe everything at her school?
(a) Brightness or dark.
(b) Grey like the stones.
(c) Very colorful.
(d) Cool and soothing.

4. Where is Aunt Cora returning from?
(a) Trinidad.
(b) England.
(c) Jamaica.
(d) Dominica.

5. How does Antoinette feel about the garden?
(a) She believes the garden is magical.
(b) She believes it is beautiful and must be like the garden in the Bible.
(c) She dislikes that is overgrown and unkept.
(d) She is afraid to go there.

6. What does Antoinette remember when she is speaking with the nun after her dream?
(a) She wants to move to England.
(b) She misses Christophene.
(c) She likes to eat cake.
(d) That her mother is dead.

7. What becomes of Antoinette's mother after they leave Coulibri?
(a) She goes insane.
(b) She moves to England with her husband.
(c) She divorces her husband.
(d) She agrees to take care of her sick aunt.

8. What does Antoinette call her step-father one night?
(a) White pappy.
(b) Father.
(c) Mr. Mason.
(d) Papa.

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

10. What does Antoinette remember her mother wearing as Part One ends?
(a) Her soft nightgown.
(b) Her mended riding habit.
(c) Her wedding dress.
(d) A red flower in her hair.

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

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

13. What does the nun give Antoinette after wakes up from her dream?
(a) A soothing bath.
(b) A chocolate drink.
(c) A shot of rum.
(d) A stern lecture.

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

15. 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 continue to work happily for their former owners.
(c) They rebel and kill many of the former slaveowners.
(d) They are discontent and some work grudginly for their former owners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Antoinette remember that her mother hated?

2. What is wrong with Pierre as a child?

3. What does Antoinette recognize about her mother when she first goes to visit her after moving from Coulibri Estate?

4. Where does Christophine go to live?

5. Why does Antoinette resent the nuns' cheerful faces?

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