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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. What is a glacis?
(a) A large fan used to keep the house cool.
(b) The French word for a glass.
(c) A look-out tower attached to a large manion.
(d) A large covered porch.

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

3. Immediately following Antoinette's description of her dream, what does the nun tell Antoinette to do after they have talked?
(a) Stay awake for the rest of the night.
(b) Go back to bed.
(c) Pray.
(d) Think happy thoughts.

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

5. Where does Christophine go to live?
(a) Back to Coulibri.
(b) With Mr. Mason.
(c) To Trinidad.
(d) With her son.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Antoinette feel about the convent?

2. Why do Mr. and Mrs. Mason frequently argue?

3. Why does Antoinette resent the nuns' cheerful faces?

4. How does Antoinette feel on her first day at school?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Antoinette insist on seeing her red dress?

2. How does Antoinette say she feels about Mr. Mason?

3. What fascinates Antoinette as she begins her narrative in Part Three?

4. What is the dream Antoinette mentions having just after her fight with Tia?

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

6. How does Antoinette describe the rooms she finds herself living in during Part Three?

7. What thoughts about England does Antoinette disclose to her husband?

8. What thoughts does Antoinette's husband disclose concerning his feelings about the servants at Grandbois?

9. Describe who is speaking when Part Three begins.

10. What happens to Mr. Mason after the fire?

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