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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How long has Annette been a widow?
(a) For one year.
(b) Barely two years.
(c) For ten years.
(d) Nearly five years.

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

5. Who is invited to spend the winter with Mr. Mason?
(a) Some English friends.
(b) Sandi Cosway.
(c) Antoinette.
(d) Aunt Cora.

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

7. In Part 1, why is Aunt Cora concerned about the family just after Antoinette's mother remarried?
(a) Aunt Cora wants to sell the estate for money to live off of.
(b) The former slaves are angry at their former owners and pose a threat.
(c) Aunt Cora doesn't want money wasted to repair Coulibri Estate.
(d) Aunt Cora wants the family to move to Spanish town.

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

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

10. Who are Godfrey and Sass?
(a) Two former slaves who stay on as Cosway servants.
(b) English suitors of the Mason widow.
(c) Two wealthy plantation owners near Coulibri.
(d) Troublemakers who spread gossip about former slave owners.

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

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

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

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

15. Why do Tia and Antoinette cease to be friends?
(a) Antoinette is told she cannot be friends with Tia because Tia is black.
(b) Antoinette moves away to Spanish Town.
(c) Tia has to go work for another family in the West Indies.
(d) They have an argument at the "bathing pool."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fate of Coulibri Estate?

2. What is Mrs. Cosway's situation at the beginning of the story?

3. Where does Antoinette go soon after she leaves Coulibri Estate?

4. How long after they were married do the Mason's start having trouble?

5. What does Antoinette call her step-father one night?

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