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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Antoinette feel when Mr. Mason tells her about their visitor(s)?
(a) Frightened.
(b) Excited.
(c) Uncertain.
(d) Dismay.

2. How do the nuns describe beauty to Antoinette?
(a) It is a mortal sin,
(b) Beauty comes from the soul.
(c) It is transcendent.
(d) It is to be greatly desired.

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

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

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

6. Who does Mr. Mason want to hire as servants?
(a) Coolies.
(b) Proper British servants.
(c) Mannie and Myra.
(d) Baptiste and Jo Jo.

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

8. Where does Antoinette arrive in her dream?
(a) On a mountain.
(b) An enclosed garden.
(c) An open field.
(d) On a ship.

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

10. What is wrong with Pierre as a child?
(a) He staggers when he walks and cannot speak clearly.
(b) He tries to kill his sister.
(c) He finds out his father is a former slave owner.
(d) He falls off his horse and is badly injured.

11. 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 a rich Englishman who marries Antoinette's mother.
(d) He is an investor who wants to buy Coulibri Estate.

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

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

14. What happens to Antoinette when she grows into a young lady of about seventeen?
(a) She marries Sandi.
(b) She becomes a nanny.
(c) She moves to England.
(d) Mr. Mason introduces her to "proper society".

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fate of Coulibri Estate?

2. Where does Myra say everyone went?

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

4. What does Antoinette remember that her mother hated?

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

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