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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Antoinette's marriage arranged?
(a) Her new husband is widowed and needs a mother for his daughter.
(b) The marriage is considered good for Antoinette considering her circumstances.
(c) Antoinette needs to marry a rich man.
(d) Antoinette is in love and asks for the marriage to be arranged.

3. What does the servant girl at the "honeymoon house" say repeatedly to Antoinette's husband?
(a) How lucky he is to be married to such a rich wife.
(b) The servant will only answer to the wife.
(c) He has been bewitched by an obeah spell.
(d) How sorry she is for him.

4. What is the weather like when the couple arrive on the island?
(a) The sun is blazing and it is extremely hot.
(b) Windy with the threat of a hurricane.
(c) Sunny with a cool, refreshing breeze.
(d) Raining and hot.

5. What memory does Antoinette's husband have of his wedding ceremony?
(a) Every detail as if it were yesterday.
(b) How excited he was.
(c) Very little of the actual ceremony,
(d) How beautiful Antoinette looks.

6. What happens to Antoinette's husband when he wakes up from his rum-induced sleep?
(a) He wanders into the forest and gets lost.
(b) He asks for a stong pot of coffee.
(c) He writes a letter to his father.
(d) He argues with his wife.

7. Why does a nameless boy sob in front of Antoinette and her husband?
(a) He wants to leave the island with them.
(b) He was caught stealing.
(c) His mother died.
(d) Baptiste beat him.

8. What does Antoinette hear from her bedroom one night?
(a) Baptiste and Christophine arguing over obeah.
(b) Her husband making plans to move to England.
(c) A wild scream outside her window.
(d) Her husband cheating on her with one of the servant girls.

9. How many children does Christophine have?
(a) A son and a daughter.
(b) One son.
(c) Three.
(d) Twin boys.

10. How does the porter feel about the island?
(a) He doesn't say.
(b) It is beautiful.
(c) It is better than Jamaica.
(d) It is not civilized.

11. What does Antoinette's husband wonder after he writes his father a letter?
(a) How the letters get posted.
(b) When he will see his father again.
(c) What Antoinette is doing.
(d) If his father is proud of him.

12. How does Antoinette tell her husband she feels about the idea of happiness?
(a) She believes she can finally be happy.
(b) She doesn't believe in happiness.
(c) She feels happiness is unattainable.
(d) It makes her feel afriad.

13. What is Antoinette's husband's first impression of the cottage?
(a) It needs repair.
(b) It is ugly.
(c) It is beautiful.
(d) It is awkward and sad.

14. What does Antoinette say about the earth on the estate?
(a) It is sandy.
(b) It is slippery.
(c) It is red there.
(d) It is good for growing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Antoinette do when she and her husband reach the boundary of the estate?

2. Antoinette's husband says the young girl servant who meets them at the port is of what race?

3. Where is the porter from?

4. What is Antoinette's husband's name?

5. Why doesn't Antoinette's husband like the her name "Antoinette"?

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