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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Sunny with a cool, refreshing breeze.
(d) Windy with the threat of a hurricane.

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

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

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

6. Why doesn't Antoinette's husband like the her name "Antoinette"?
(a) He finds out it is her mother's name.
(b) It isn't a proper name for a lady.
(c) It is to hard for him to pronounce.
(d) It is a French name.

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

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

9. 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 are sad to leave such a beautiful place.
(c) They hate each other.
(d) They have reconciled their differences.

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

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

12. Who came to stare at the couple when they arrived from Jamaica?
(a) Caroline.
(b) The servants.
(c) Three little boys.
(d) Two women.

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

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

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 trust her if she trusts him.
(c) He will bring her safety.
(d) He will be a good husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Antoinette and her husband stay their first night at the honeymoon island?

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

3. Where is the porter from?

4. What does Antoinette's husband question Amelie about?

5. Who does Antoinette's husband decide to visit concerning the letter he received?

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