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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who goes with Antoinette to visit her mother?
(a) Sandi.
(b) Christophine.
(c) Mr. Mason.
(d) Myra.

2. Who does Mr. Mason want to hire as servants?
(a) Coolies.
(b) Baptiste and Jo Jo.
(c) Proper British servants.
(d) Mannie and Myra.

3. How long after they were married do the Mason's start having trouble?
(a) When the new servants quit.
(b) After their honeymoon.
(c) Less than a month.
(d) Over a year.

4. Why do Tia and Antoinette cease to be friends?
(a) Tia has to go work for another family in the West Indies.
(b) They have an argument at the "bathing pool."
(c) Antoinette moves away to Spanish Town.
(d) Antoinette is told she cannot be friends with Tia because Tia is black.

5. In the story, how do the newly freed slaves behave towards their former white owners?
(a) They rebel and kill many of the former slaveowners.
(b) They don't care one way or the other about their former owners.
(c) They continue to work happily for their former owners.
(d) They are discontent and some work grudginly for their former owners.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the nuns describe beauty to Antoinette?

2. Part One is told from whose point of view?

3. What does Mr. Mason say the servants can smell?

4. What is the fate of Coulibri Estate?

5. Where does Myra say everyone went?

Short Essay Questions

1. What new details does Antoinette disclose about her dream the second time she has it?

2. How does Antoinette know what is behind the locked door?

3. Does Grace Poole seem to take good care of Antoinette?

4. What startles Grace Poole as she is sitting at the table at the end of the narrative?

5. What do we learn about Antoinette's husband from Grace Poole's discourse about her interview?

6. What becomes of Antoinette's mother at the close of Part One?

7. What does Antoinette see in the sky during her unsettling dream?

8. What does Antoinette know about Grace Poole?

9. Who introduces Amelie into the story and how is she described?

10. Does Antoinette's husband like Grandbois?

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