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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Patois?
(a) A spicy dish served in the West Indies.
(b) An African language the former slaves speak.
(c) A French dialect spoken in the Islands.
(d) A style of dress worn by house servants.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who are the Mounes Mors of the island?
(a) The people of French descent.
(b) The original inhabitants of the island.
(c) The Dead Ones.
(d) The practioners of voodoo.

8. How are Antoinette and her husband feeling when they leave the "honeymoon house?"
(a) They look forward to a new life in England.
(b) They have reconciled their differences.
(c) They hate each other.
(d) They are sad to leave such a beautiful place.

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

10. What does Antoinette's husband write to Mr. Fraser in a personal letter?
(a) He wants arrangements made to return to Jamaica.
(b) He is considering a book about obeah.
(c) He wants to have Daniel Cosway arrested.
(d) He enquires about his father's health.

11. Who narrates most of Part Two?
(a) Antionette's husband.
(b) Antoinette.
(c) Mr. Mason.
(d) Christophine.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children does Christophine have?

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

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

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

5. When has Antoinette been to the cottage before?

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