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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Antoinette wear in her dream?
(a) A red satin gown.
(b) Tia's dress.
(c) A grey nightgown.
(d) A beautiful white dress.

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

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

5. Where does Antoinette go to school?
(a) Mount Calvary Convent.
(b) Spanish Town School for GIrls.
(c) Saint Mary's.
(d) Queen Victoria's Royal Academy.

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

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

8. How does Antoinette feel on her first day at school?
(a) She is frightened.
(b) She is excited.
(c) She is sad and cries.
(d) She is angry.

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

10. What becomes of Pierre after the family leaves Coulibri Estate?
(a) He dies from injuries received in a fire.
(b) He is cured from his childhood illness.
(c) He goes to school in England.
(d) He becomes a magistrate in the West Indies.

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

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

13. Who is Mr. Mason?
(a) He is the Coulibri Estate owner's cousin.
(b) He is the Coulibri Estate owner's rich uncle.
(c) He is an investor who wants to buy Coulibri Estate.
(d) He is a rich Englishman who marries Antoinette's mother.

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

15. What is a glacis?
(a) A large covered porch.
(b) The French word for a glass.
(c) A look-out tower attached to a large manion.
(d) A large fan used to keep the house cool.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Antoinette following in her dream?

2. What does Antoinette remember that her mother hated?

3. Where does Myra say everyone went?

4. What kind of food do the Mason's eat?

5. Who rescues Antoinette from being harassed and taunted by a mean boy and girl near the end of Part One?

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