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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Antoinette's husband says the young girl servant who meets them at the port is of what race?
(a) He describes her as Creole.
(b) He describes her a half-caste.
(c) He says she is Colored.
(d) He describes her as White.

2. Who does Antoinette's husband decide to visit concerning the letter he received?
(a) A priest.
(b) The letter's author.
(c) The chief magistrate.
(d) His lawyer.

3. When has Antoinette been to the cottage before?
(a) Once with her Aunt Cora.
(b) With her family to get away from the hot weather in summer.
(c) She has been there three times before.
(d) This is her first time to the cottage.

4. What is the name of the estate where the cottage is located?
(a) Grace Poole.
(b) It is not named.
(c) Lowood.
(d) Granbois.

5. How else does Antoinette's husband describe this servant girl?
(a) Lovely and malignant, like the place.
(b) Lithe and cheerful like an island breeze.
(c) Angry like a storm about to break.
(d) Withering and dull.

6. What does Antoinette's husband say happens the day before the wedding ceremony?
(a) Richard Mason bursts into his room with bad news.
(b) Antoinette is eager to marry him.
(c) He gets sick with fever.
(d) Aunt Cora is angry.

7. What is Antoinette's husband's name?
(a) He is never named in "Wide Sargasso Sea".
(b) Mr. Rochester.
(c) Richard Mason.
(d) Alexander Cosway.

8. What does Antoinette give her husband when they cross onto the estate?
(a) She kisses him.
(b) A hug.
(c) Water from a spring.
(d) A wildflower.

9. What advice does Christophine give Antoinette regarding fears about her husband?
(a) Speak to her husband and make him understand.
(b) Take over running the household like a good wife should.
(c) Stop worrying and be happy she is married to a wonderful man.
(d) Cry and act weak to gain her husband's sympathy.

10. Who narrates the story for a brief time mid-way through Part Two?
(a) Antoinette.
(b) Richard Mason.
(c) Christophine.
(d) Aunt Cora.

11. What does Antoinette's husband learn from his visit to the author of the letter he received in Part Two?
(a) James Cosway is his wife's half-brother.
(b) Christophene is about to be arrested.
(c) The priest wrote the letter.
(d) Antoinette is a half-caste.

12. How do Antoinette and her husband get to the cottage?
(a) On horseback.
(b) They walk.
(c) By stagecoach.
(d) In a private carriage.

13. What shocks Antoinette's husband too much to speak?
(a) The way his wife looks the night she gets home late.
(b) Daniel Cosway is murdered.
(c) Christophine tries to poison him.
(d) Baptiste ignores his orders.

14. How much money is paid to Antoinette's husband from Antoinette's inheritance?
(a) None.
(b) Fifty thousand dollars.
(c) Thirty thousand pounds.
(d) The reader does not know.

15. When Antoinette's husband is recalling the events during his marriage to Antoinette, what bargain does he make with her?
(a) He will always take care of her.
(b) He will be a good husband.
(c) He will trust her if she trusts him.
(d) He will bring her safety.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does a nameless boy sob in front of Antoinette and her husband?

2. Why doesn't Antoinette like her husband calling her Bertha?

3. What are fireflies called on the island where Antoinette and her husband honeymoon?

4. What has just happened at the beginning of Part Two?

5. How does Antoinette tell her husband she feels about the idea of happiness?

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