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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who is the first new character the reader meets in Part Two?
(a) James.
(b) Jo Jo.
(c) Baptiste.
(d) Amelie.

7. How does Antoinette's husband feel things will look in the sun?
(a) Romantic.
(b) Different.
(c) Vivid.
(d) Frightening.

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

9. How does Antoinette's husband feel his first morning at the island?
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Exhausted.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Rested.

10. What are fireflies called on the island where Antoinette and her husband honeymoon?
(a) La belle.
(b) Lightening bugs.
(c) Patois.
(d) Crac-cracs.

11. 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.

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

13. What is the name of the porter?
(a) Baptiste.
(b) Young Bull.
(c) Emile.
(d) Jo Jo.

14. What does Antoinette ask her husband about England?
(a) Does he miss England?
(b) Is it true it is like a dream?
(c) Is it cold there?
(d) Will they go to live there?

15. What is the name of the main town near the "honeymoon cottage" of Part Two?
(a) Massacre.
(b) St. Pierre.
(c) Windward.
(d) Negril.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Antoinette's husband see his wife do that upsets him?

2. Who narrates the story for a brief time mid-way through Part Two?

3. What does Antoinette's husband learn from his visit to the author of the letter he received in Part Two?

4. What does Antoinette mock her husband about on their way to the cottage?

5. Who are waiting for Antoinette and her husband when the arrive at their honeymoon cottage?

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