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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. In Part 1, why is Aunt Cora concerned about the family just after Antoinette's mother remarried?
(a) Aunt Cora doesn't want money wasted to repair Coulibri Estate.
(b) Aunt Cora wants to sell the estate for money to live off of.
(c) Aunt Cora wants the family to move to Spanish town.
(d) The former slaves are angry at their former owners and pose a threat.

2. How does Antoinette describe everything at her school?
(a) Very colorful.
(b) Grey like the stones.
(c) Brightness or dark.
(d) Cool and soothing.

3. What does Antoinette recognize about her mother when she first goes to visit her after moving from Coulibri Estate?
(a) Her beautiful smile.
(b) Her eyes.
(c) The perfume she wears.
(d) Her hair and dress.

4. Where does Antoinette go soon after she leaves Coulibri Estate?
(a) She is sent to Dominca to attend school.
(b) She moves to England with her aunt.
(c) She moves to Trinidad with a servant.
(d) A school for Creole girls in Spanish Town.

5. How does Antoinette feel when Mr. Mason tells her about their visitor(s)?
(a) Excited.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Dismay.
(d) Uncertain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the nuns describe beauty to Antoinette?

2. What is a glacis?

3. What significant event occurs just before the story begins?

4. How does Antoinette feel about the garden?

5. How does Myra always look?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Antoinette's husband witness any behavior in Antoinette that confirms his concern about her?

2. Why is Grace Poole angry with Antoinette the morning Antoinette wakes up with swollen, red wrists?

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

4. Who are the Luttrells?

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

6. Who is Aunt Cora?

7. Does Antoinette's husband seem happy about his recent marriage?

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

9. Describe the room that Antoinette visits one night when she has taken the keys from Grace.

10. How does Antoinette get a knife in Part Three?

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