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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. From whom does Antoinette's husband get a disturbing letter?
(a) Daniel Cosway.
(b) His lawyer.
(c) His father.
(d) Aunt Cora.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Antoinette's husband dream happens to him after he drinks the wine Antoinette gave him?
(a) He is buried alive.
(b) His father is calling to him.
(c) He is back in England.
(d) He is lost in the woods.

11. Who does Antoinette recall arguing with before her wedding?
(a) Baptiste and Jo Jo.
(b) Tia and Josephine.
(c) Her mother and step-father.
(d) Aunt Cora and Richard Mason.

12. Why doesn't Antoinette like her husband calling her Bertha?
(a) She thinks the name is ugly.
(b) It is not her name.
(c) She thinks the name is too formal, too British.
(d) She thinks he is trying to turn her into someone else.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice does Christophine give Antoinette regarding fears about her husband?

2. What is the name of the estate where the cottage is located?

3. Who are the Mounes Mors of the island?

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

5. When has Antoinette been to the cottage before?

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